Subject: Re: music as a process of religion (was RE: Kurt Cobain)
From: Robbie (shok@netcom.com)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2000 - 04:52:45 EST
AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> Oh, Bull. . .our imagination would be greatly impoverished without religion.
> I haven't met a philosopher or a poet yet that has been able to think without
> it -- even if his or her thinking was purely oppositional. And then, the
> first thing they do is run out looking for (creating) a substitute. . .
Oh, hogwash. Religion is a dominant social force and it influences
philosophers and poets as such. It is in no way necessary to the
existence of humanity or imagination.
> What's you're really thinking about is a certain Kind of religion.
>
> Jim
No, it isn't. Not by the general definition of the word "religion,"
anyway.
The lack of religion is not a different religion. Religion is not a
natural aspect of the human animal. We are all born Atheist. Atheism
is not a religion.
yea,
robbie
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