From: Richard Brodie (RBrodie@brodietech.com)
Date: Thu Jan 23 1997 - 13:31:05 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>I must say, though, that I find not a single thing worthwhile about
>Jesus's teachings at all. He is the classic self-sacrificial altruist,
>mindlessly vengeful (e.g., the fig tree), praising "faith" (mysticism
>and uncritical acceptance of dogma), "hope" (begging for supernatural
>favors instead of working to better yourself), and "charity" (self-
>sacrifice and self-loathing). He was anti-capitalist ("camel through
>the needle's eye..."), pro-government ("render unto Caesar..."). To
>hell with him, I'll pick my own heroes. "And yea, Feynmann said unto
>his students..."
Those memes are great if OTHER people believe them. Was it William James
who said that the ideal world would be one in which everyone ELSE was a
Christian?
Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com +1.206.688.8600
CEO, Brodie Technology Group, Inc., Bellevue, WA, USA
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
Do you know what a "meme" is?
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
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