[lit-ideas] Re: T'AINT FUNNY, MCGEE

  • From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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  • Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 23:20:58 EST

Okay.  Let's say that the world could implement good parenting  universally.  
Who is given to choose what "good parenting" looks  like?  I'm suspecting 
there might, just conceivably, be a few differences  of opinion out there on 
the 
subject....  What if part of humankind's  obsession with religion is a search 
for some sort of objective valuation that  acts as a moral compass to 
determine for a given culture what societal issues  like "good parenting" look 
like?  
A way of reaching out for something w/ a  higher authority than each Mom and 
Dad warring for "my way is the REAL good  parenting"?  Many husbands and wives 
can't even come to an  agreement.   Most communities agree that children 
should not be  soldiers, children should not be tortured (of course, even our 
state 
govt has  trouble figuring out what constitutes torture), children should not 
be  threatened with death....   In the absence of religion, where is an  
generally decided on moral value to come from?  The inherent human  instinct?  
Or 
conversely, if the human instinct is so driven to seek a  morality, can 
humankind be as bad as you see it?
 
Julie Krueger
wandering around the edges of old ground

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Yup.  It would be the next best  thing to a magic wand for the world.  And 
just as likely to  happen.
 
 


 

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So your deity of choice is good parenting?
 
Julie Krueger
 

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Sent: 12/8/2006 8:46:07 PM 
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: T'AINT FUNNY,  MCGEE


<<So what's your explanation  for why mankind continues to be so religious?>>
 

Well, I'm a little close to the  subject being, i.e., a part of mankind 
myself....  I have no  explanations -- that's like asking a dog to explain the 
behaviour of  canines.  
 
 
A.A. I guess by that definition  there's not much we can say or theorize 
about mankind, since we're all part  of it.
 
 
 
J.K.  The simple fact is that  evidence says that it's part of who humankind 
is.  The relevant  question isn't "why", but "so what do we do with this". 
 
 
 
A.A. I think the why is infinitely more  interesting and productive.  We 
can't know what to do with  something unless we know what's driving it.  My 
personal feelings are  it's based in fear, and brainwashing by parents based on 
fear 
and the need  to control.  If we improved parenting techniques, the need for 
religion  would vastly diminish.  Not to worry, that's never going to  happen.

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