[extropy-chat] 'a process of non-thinking called faith' 2 (2)

[The Avantguardian]

--- Keith Henson <hkhenson at rogers.com> wrote:
> Faith is the 
> >component which teaches that to question the nature
> of things is bad and 
> >that to accept what you are taught is true and
> complete. It's basically an 
> >immune system for religious memes.

Self-enforced ignorance is not the same as faith.
Faith can move mountains, ignorance can't even pay the
bills.

> Dawkins is one of the most influential people in my
> life.  But I think he 
> is going off in the wrong direction in directly
> fighting religions without 
> making an effort to understand why the capacity for
> religions was adaptive 
> in the past.  I find the result like being against
> fevers when that is not 
> the root cause of the problem but a symptom.

Perhaps he has considered that and still finds
fundamentalist religion (not really fundamentalism at
all but enforced ignorance) too risky to tolerate. I
can't really blame him. I am there myself. . . and I
am a mystic. 




Stuart LaForge
alt email: stuart"AT"ucla.edu

"Believe nothing. No matter where you read it, or who said it, even if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."- Siddhartha Guatama aka Buddha.


 
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