From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@uniserve.com)
Date: Fri Oct 22 1999 - 10:29:24 MDT
Micah Redding wrote:
>Not to say that most religious people aren't ignorant, but it's not
>justified to condemn all religion based on its adherrents. You couldn't
>dismiss extropianism, for example, just because no one has been
>completely extropi[c].
The reason that religion often gets "bashed" on this list is because most
list members have high regard for reason, rationality and absolute values.
It is rare for a religion to possess any of these facets at the core of its
value system. Beliefs in gods and unprovable acts and histories seems as
absurd when there is a plethora of evidence to prove otherwise. As to the
idea of learning all about a particular religion before condemning it, I
will say that *all* religions (to my knowledge) have the lowest common
denominator of belief in the unprovable...there are far more tangible
things to spend time learning about.
By the way, I would not say that no-one has been completely extropic: it
took someone whose existance is provable to formalize the philosophy, and
many others to agree with it.
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-Robert Bradbury, Extro-4
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