Leave it to the ever-quotable Swami V to come up with a comment favoring religious propagation that I could get behind.
This requires a little explanation.
The only thing I hate more than religion is religious intolerance. I say this without the irony that gives the line its pleasing comical tenor. I mean it. It
is the curse of liberalism.
I would be quite happy – and I think the world would be a better place – if everyone lost interest in religion, and it all just atrophied away. This, of course, will never happen. So since there will always be religion, I am forced into a more realistic fallback position that is as principled as its core as it
is pragmatic in its genesis.
Mr. Jiva-is-Shiva’s one-religion-per person plan would accomplish both my ideals. It would represent the absolute obsolescence of religion as well as a manifestation of perfect tolerance and interpersonal harmony.
You may say that Swami Vivekananda, John Lennon, and I are dreamers (but we’re not the only ones). Imagine.
On Sep 6, 2007 mbj wrote :
Leave it to the ever-quotable Swami V to come up with a comment favoring religious propagation that I could get behind.
This requires a little explanation.
The only thing I hate more than religion is religious intolerance. I say this without the irony that gives the line its pleasing comical tenor. I mean it. It is the curse of liberalism.
I would be quite happy – and I think the world would be a better place – if everyone lost interest in religion, and it all just atrophied away. This, of course, will never happen. So since there will always be religion, I am forced into a more realistic fallback position that is as principled as its core as it is pragmatic in its genesis.
Mr. Jiva-is-Shiva’s one-religion-per person plan would accomplish both my ideals. It would represent the absolute obsolescence of religion as well as a manifestation of perfect tolerance and interpersonal harmony.
You may say that Swami Vivekananda, John Lennon, and I are dreamers (but we’re not the only ones). Imagine.
MBJ