[ExI] Tolerance

Stefano Vaj stefano.vaj at gmail.com
Tue Dec 8 12:37:11 UTC 2009


2009/12/8  <moulton at moulton.com>:
> Slightly false since not all religions are theist.

Yes. This raises an important point.

In fact, I am slightly uneasy with the concept itself of "atheism",
since it accepts in the first place that Jahvé, Allah and the Holy
Trinity are in fact "gods", according to the bad Bible translation of
the Seventies", and that the rejection thereof is a fundamental stance
splitting the world in two camps. During the Roman empire, in fact,
christianism was not even considered as a legitimate religion, but
rather as a superstitio nova ac malefica (a new, malicious
superstition).

In fact, almost every other religion either comprises a set of beliefs
which die away gently, or has no problem whatsoever with a
technoscientific or a transhumanist worldview (in fact, it might even
corroborate it); and in any event does not command "faith" in a number
of statements of fact as a moral duty to be imposed on any human
being. Say, Zen, pre-christian paganism, confucianism, shinto...

-- 
Stefano Vaj



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