I always thought that Judaism really was the perfect religion for intellectuals. The belief in questioning your own religion, rather than blindly following it in some biblical leap of faith is tremendously advanced, particularly considering the millennia that Judaism has been around for. Had I been raised Jewish rather than absentee Anglican, I wonder whether I would have developed into the staunch (read: rabid) atheist that I’ve been for most of my life. [I likely would have eventually switched to Buddhism so I could have learned some crazy Kung Fu moves to lay to my opponents – if what I have learned about the religion through Shaw Brother movies is correct.]
I am a little unsettled about Rushkoff’s discussion about Abstract Monotheism and the concept of good and evil, “… what we think of as "evil" may better be understood as the absence of good.” From this you could extend that humanity without a god (or religion, or community) is inherently evil; that without religious structure (no matter how abstract it is), society is chaotic and barbaric. Historical and current faith-based global events seem to indicate otherwise.
Come on over to my place and we can discuss this manically in my living room. Sneech can bring the gum and I’ll give you a light show as you jabber to 140 BPM acid techno.
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I am a little unsettled about Rushkoff’s discussion about Abstract Monotheism and the concept of good and evil, “… what we think of as "evil" may better be understood as the absence of good.” From this you could extend that humanity without a god (or religion, or community) is inherently evil; that without religious structure (no matter how abstract it is), society is chaotic and barbaric. Historical and current faith-based global events seem to indicate otherwise.
Come on over to my place and we can discuss this manically in my living room. Sneech can bring the gum and I’ll give you a light show as you jabber to 140 BPM acid techno.