Re: transcendental

J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Thu, 22 Oct 1998 20:48:58 -0400 (EDT)

Yes, and I agree that female circumcision is awful, but how is your
judgment in any way academic?  And why is academia somehow better than
religion in making moral and ethical judgments?  And isn't what you're
calling academic really just another form of religious judgment?

The purpose of my questions is to see how far people are willing to
reason out their comments.  I've just heard SOOO many affirmations with
SOOO little support.  

Jim  

<<Well ... put it this way. There are marriage counsellors out there
who've
never been married. Then again in the Russian Orthodox church a marriage
counsellor *must* be married ... I guess what I'm trying to say is what I
said before - there are two ways to view religion, and in this case I
think
we should view it academically. For example, I would never agree with
something like female circumcision which has bases in religion, and that
judgement would have nothing whatsoever to do with whether or not I was
that religion. In some ways, it's actually easier to view a religion
objectively from outside of it. As I always say, I never met a goldfish
who
could draw a goldfish bowl.

Camille>>

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