[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[david buchanan]

Squonk predicted dmb's relply:
You retort: That's rubbish. Is that the best you can do?

dmb says:
Exactly. T'was a big fat bucket of face-saving weasle words. Thank you very 
little.

We all know that Pirsig has described the MOQ as anti-theistic. He's said 
that only a mystic can rightly associate DQ and God. And nobody seems to 
have an intelligent argument for theism. So why does the debate haunt us? 
Why am I cast as the bad guy? For defending the obvious? Because I believe 
nonsense shouldn't go unchallenged in a philosophy forum? If it weren't for 
the efforts of various stubborn and defensive theists this whole debate 
should have disappeared long ago.

I'm with Arlo. I think we could really benefit from Joseph Campbell on this 
topic and he illuminates Pirsig's work in other ways too. Wilber does 
mysticism too. But none of them are theists. I mean, there are intelligent 
things to say about that "spiritual" dimension but we never get around to 
that discussion because we're too busy bullshitting around with thing like 
"intelligent design".

What a waste.

What a drag.

sigh.

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