tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post8249585773894469871..comments2023-12-20T04:18:41.617-06:00Comments on The Hunting of the Snark: "Evolution of Religious Bigotry"Susan of Texashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-91024444615814807852008-04-02T13:56:00.000-05:002008-04-02T13:56:00.000-05:00You're absolutely right, but by simplifying things...You're absolutely right, but by simplifying things (admittedly, beyond reality), I am trying to make a very clear point--that people in the past easily could have made the same kinds of complaints about Christianity that modern conservatives make about Islam. <BR/><BR/>In other words, a post about Rome written by someone whose information comes from gladiator movies, aimed at people whose information comes from the same source!Susan of Texashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00076915322771385454noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2222630007427380394.post-54148470973542741412008-04-02T12:07:00.000-05:002008-04-02T12:07:00.000-05:00Cicero is wrong. Euclid. Aristotle. Plato Socrates...<I>Cicero is wrong. Euclid. Aristotle. Plato Socrates.</I><BR/><BR/>Roman attitudes towards religion - and the attitudes of the Greeks - were more complex than than modern fundie true/false constructions, some gods, for instance, being clear-cut representatives of the state: their cults were part and parcel of civic virtue and not necessarily attached to mysticism. There is also a little of the advanced Hindu religion in some thinkers believing that gods were simply representative of human qualities, yet worship goes on because it's a good thing.<BR/><BR/>In short, I think Livia would be boggled by such a letter.Righteous Bubbahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18054084550730989361noreply@blogger.com