Caltrops - Laurence Fishburne's Dance Dance Revolution





	[quote name="ndd"][quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="ndd"]What's the proper method of selecting a faith in a pluralist liberal society that provides freedom of religious choice and expression?[/quote] None. You goddam lunatic. I can imagine Rome being pretty easy going as far as religion goes, until Christianity appeared and made everyone crazy again. The Greeks could debate bullshit FOR EVER, raising the process of debate over any kind of substance, and the Latins could find imaginary certitude in the middle of very real chaos as the old institutions fell apart. Hope something like this doesn't replay itself in the future. I'd rather see humanity understand in a rigorous, precise way what it means to have human brains between our ears, and safely leave behind some of this stuff. Continue the things we've always done in a haphazard way -- creating institutions to help avoid our own worse natures and facilitate good decision-making, like republican governments, or justice systems that try to minimize bias and maximize fairness, stuff like that -- except better. In some fashion. :( (You can leave out the first three sentences if you prefer, those are informed primarily by the fact that I'm reading a history of the Papacy at the moment. I don't hate Christianity or anything, it's just not any more relevant than Zoroastrianism or worshiping Thor. Or string theory?)[/quote] But I wouldn't be a Christian minister. For many of the reasons you've listed here. However there do exist faiths that explicitly embrace scientific progress and understanding, democratic process, and social justice. For one, Unitarianism. I don't think everyone is or should be religious, and I don't think religious thinking should guide fucking anything but religious practice. But I do think that for some people <i>moral</i> thinking is heavily influenced by religion. I also think some people have patterns of thoughts and feelings which are satisfied and enriched by religious practice. For those people, should there not be religion? For the moral-religious thinker, should there not be a sound, responsible guide? [/quote]