RE: playing at suicide

From: Lawrence DeBivort (debivort@umd5.umd.edu)
Date: Thu Jan 10 2002 - 17:44:14 GMT

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From: "Lawrence DeBivort" <debivort@umd5.umd.edu>
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Subject: RE: playing at suicide
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    Greetings, Philip

    You have put the case most courageously. The task must deal with the present
    reality that many people like having mystery in their lives, a sense of
    being in touch with higher powers and deeper truths, even if these cannot be
    expressed rationally. They seek a mythic reality. If this is the case and
    inescapable, can you see the beneficial creation of a new type of
    'religion', one in which the mythic drive is honored, but within a context
    one of a modern society, requiring unity as a people, and one with great
    tasks ahead of it?

    Lawrence

    > Philip Jonkers:
    > Religion is hopelessly outdated and obsolete in modern
    > society. This is reflected by the Pope admitting
    > more and more scienctific truisms in catholic
    > religion. If we want to reach unity as a people
    > world-wide, religion is the foremost obstacle that
    > has to be eliminated. Since the vast majority of
    > humans adhere to some sort of religion this is
    > a truly daunting task. I doubt if it will ever be
    > feasible, all the more since it seems that religion
    > is ingrained in the human brain. Maybe after many
    > generations of enlightenment it may get evolved out.
    >
    > Philip.
    >
    >
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