Posted: Sep 22, 2017 12:00 pm
Leucius Charinus wrote:proudfootz wrote:Stein wrote:Apparently, this Holland guy has been praised in certain right-wing circles (as described at the foot of this piece) --
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/cul ... and-review
Isn't that interesting?
Stein
No more interesting than the thugs and sadists who use religious texts as an excuse to oppress, rob, torture, rape, and kill others.
For a religious proponent, the Reverend Spong on the "Terrible Texts of the Bible" covers this aspect very well.
It's so tedious for defenders of orthodoxy to bring out these one-sided 'arguments' as if all the bad guys are among the skeptics.
Holland can't be held responsible for the choices other people make.
To what extent have the Christian and Islamic "Book Religions" been fabricated by the warlords who implemented them in antiquity in order to maintain large geographical expanses of conquered territory by means of a centralised monotheistic state cult?
Thinking about the alliance between church and state that has obtained throughout recorded history all over the globe rather gives me the impression that they are twin forms of social control each relying upon the other and each supporting the other.