M&D Deep Duck Soulless?

[Mark Kohut]

SALON: You point out, though, that the concept of "religion" didn't
even exist before the early modern period. What exactly are we talking
about, then, when we talk about religion and violence before modern
times?

KAREN ARMSTRONG: First of all, there is the whole business about
religion before the modern period never having been considered a
separate activity but infusing and cohering with all other activities,
including state-building, politics and warfare.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:50 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> p. 22....Mason, from the ongoing grief of the loss of his wife, after
> suggesting to Dixon that they
> should investigate the Learned Dog for Metempsychosis reasons, at
> least p.19....after asking why are there still not
> Oracles...Gate--Ways to Futurity.....
>
> must ask tLD if he has a soul...
>
> I would say, off the top, Mason is sorta-obsessed with whether Death
> is The End or there is an After, wouldn't you? [tangential: we might
> remember the von Braun quote in GR. More heretically tangential: we
> might remember TRP's lifelong remembering of his great pal, Richard
> F.?]
>
> The doubts of a religious man. There was a time in the West when no
> (religious) person would even have such doubts. Dante's time did not,
> right Monte? and TRP fave Henry Adams said about the same of the time
> of building Mont-Saint Michel and Chartes.
>  Becker suggests that Acquinas's massive Summa came about as his and
> his time's edifice against doubt...
>
> But, doubtlessly, religious doubt at least was ushered in with the
> Enlightenment.
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