Ash Wednesday

[Paul Mackin]

On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 00:10, Terrance wrote:
> MalignD
> 
> >If?  This really is the crux:  that this 2000-year-old fairy tale, this self-evident >and ludicrous crock of shit, still has purchase on the twenty-first century mind.  And >in the US, perhaps more than ever, influences political decision-making and social >policy.
> 
> 
> 
> Religions are quite resilient. The great religions represent some of the
> most enduring forms of world perception. Even in the Secularized Western
> Nation States like the USA, religion governs the way in which the
> majority of the people interpret the world.  Adapting  contemporary
> styles of philosophy and political thought to their fundamental
> doctrines, the great religions of the world continue to grow and change
> with the world. 
> The fact that the Christian fairy tale is a crock of shit is really
> beside the point. It doesn't matter that there is no god, the influence
> of religion on the lives of most men and women in the world, and thus on
> the political bodies of the world, has little or nothing to do with the
> belief or actual existence of god or gods.



Crock of shit or not it's seemingly an important crock of shit. 

Judging by the Ash Wednesday thread.

Competing crocks of shit can't hold a candle to it.

Communism, Nazism, Freudianism, vegetarianism, sexism,
antidisestablishmentarianism, post-modernism.

All crocks of shit are equal but some crocks of shit are more equal than
others.