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Against Theology
Posted Mar 27, 2003
True religion is totally subjective.
Theology is an attempt to create an objective reality/fact out of this subjective experience.
Actually, we should be focusing on the subjective experience.
Absolute subjectivity is the route to certainty.
Absolute objectivity is impossible.
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What I would do if I was God
Posted Mar 12, 2003
Answer every question, satisfy every desire. Immediately. (Ask and you shall receive). Set up a massive call centre to handle all the calls.
Do all the things God is supposed to do (but never apparently does)-like appearing in clouds of glory, and speaking out of the sky, and performing weird miracles all over the place.
then resign.
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Immigration
Posted Mar 12, 2003
Immigration is human evolution at work. The same drivers that sent the earliest humans out of Africa and across the straits of Gibraltar into Europe are driving Rumanians off their peasant farms and towards Sangatte. But we're treating it like a disease - trying to inoculate ourselves against more strangers arriving in our midst, with laws and detention centres and subtle (and meaningless) distinctions between asylum seekers and econonomic migrants. We were all economic migrants 180,000 years ago.
The reality is unrestricted immigration would be good for us - look what it did for the USA - but it needs to be unrestricted the world over.
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fundamentalism, origins of
Posted Mar 12, 2003
Why do religious and political fundamentalism seem to be on the rise? People want certainty, and in a pluralist relativist world, they feel more insecure than ever. This is beginning to affect politics. How should politicians respond? Is a clash of fundamentalisms inevitable? eg Southern Baptists vs Islamic extremists, Hindu nationalists vs Muslims, pro-lifers vs right-to-choosers.
How can people have security and certainty in a multicultural, multi-valent world?
Is certainty and security always based on a myth that we create for ourselves? That myth might be religious, or social, or cultural, but for it to work we all have to believe in it. It might be patriotism, or the British Empire, or the Catholic Church, or truth and liberty under God. Are multi-culturalism and the values of liberal democracy sufficient? I don't think many people think so.
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