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At 11:46 AM 12/13/2007, Seien wrote:<br><br>
snip<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Religion is an antirational
memeplex. </blockquote><br>
I wish you would not do that.<br><br>
You could say "Religions are antirational memeplexes," but the
"religion" singular is a *class* of memes (or a class of meme
complexes or memeplexes if you want -- I consider meme to be like string,
no size bounds attached to the concept).<br><br>
snip<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">The reason that religion gets it
wrong is because it *is* antirational, </blockquote><br>
You really need to be specific here because there are memes classed as
religions that are rational. (Venturism for example.)
<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">and the essence of morality is
reason. </blockquote><br>
There is no moral rule I can think of that cannot be restated in terms
that make EP sense. I.e., survival of genes.<br><br>
Your arguments would be much improved if you could sprinkle them with
specific examples instead of buzz words like "dynamic
reason."<br><br>
Keith<br><br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">One can only arrive at moral
decisions, think in a morally good way, behave in a right way rather than
an evil way, with the use of dynamic reason. </i>Religion openly
suppresses reason. Therefore it openly suppresses morality. It replaces
this loss of real morality with a false "morality" of its
own.<br><br>
<a href="http://curi.us/blog/post/1163-morality-is-not-for-god">
http://curi.us/blog/post/1163-morality-is-not-for-god</a> <-this
dialogue might interest you. :)<br>
<br><br>
-- <br>
~Seien <br>
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