[thechat] Mythology was comics

[Joe Crawford]

on 5/24/2001 1:13 AM, isaac at isaac at members.evolt.org wrote:

> i doubt that during troubled periods in the united states regarding rights
> for non-whites, that the churches were leading the way sharing their pews
> with people of all backgrounds...


It's your reflexive prejudice against all things religious which gives you
this innate doubt, not any evidence or research you yourself have done.

Or am I mistaken and have you done research on religion and the civil rights
movement?

Recall that Dr. Martin Luther King was himself a preacher.

Recall also Mohandas Gandhi, who drew strength from faith.

Desmond Tutu, another example.


And I find it telling that you /didn't/ respond to this that I said:

> I have also seen people use their faith as a blunt object against those they
> love, and seen the effects of that cruelty. And certainly religion has been
> central to lots of bloodletting, an indicator that religion, like other
> human endeavors (like science!) might likewise not have all the answers.

I'm not claiming religion is always good, indeed, I am saying it stands
along most human endeavors as capable of drawing out the best, and the worst
in people.

isaac, you seem to be claiming that religion is all bad.

Now, that may be the experience you have had of those who claim a faith.

But it ain't necessarily universal.

Those are my thoughts.

    - Joe <http://artlung.com/>