[MD] Terry Eagleton on Dawkin's God Delusion

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Hi All 

On 18 Jan. Ian distributed Eagleton's thoughts on Dawkin's 
thoughts on religion - perhaps he agrees with  Eagleton. I'll just 
zoom in on this part.

> A molehill of instances out of a mountain of them will have to
> suffice. Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that
> Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe
> unquestioningly. 

First of all. "Religion" is a wide term, The West regards Buddhism 
and Taoism as religions, but they have nothing in common with 
the Semitic "sects"  Judaism, Islam and Christianity. There are 
efforts to compare DQ with the  God of the said sects, but here I 
agree with DMB who rejects this. 

Now, of the three, Christendom has moved farthest away from its 
roots - which in a MOQ light is the social level - because of the 
Christ figure who IMO had picked up the SOM/Intellectual signals 
from the Greeks and began the same processs in the heartland of 
Judaism. A most difficult task as we know. 

Lutheranism has brought this process farthest while Catholicism 
lags behind as and certainly wants people to believe 
unquestioningly. Around here, in Scandinavia there are now 
clerics who don't believe in God and I hope this trend will move 
further and bring Christendom closer to a kind of Western 
Buddhism.  

But to achieve this the intellectual level has to be transcended for 
the meta-level of the MOQ. In my opinion the MOQ is a better 
"buddhism" than Zen because of the West's long sojourn on the 
intellectual (SOM) level, one that the orientals just had a touch-
and-go experience with before turning "mystics". 

IMO

Bo