[MD] Terry Eagleton on Dawkin's God Delusion

[ian glendinning]

Bo you said of me "perhaps he agrees with Eagleton".

I doubt it, he seems too extreme for my taste, but I'm not sure I
understand his position in enough detail. I simply posted because
there are others here who wear their socialist politics pretty
squarely on their sleeves who do appreciate Eagleton. I don't find
partisan politics a helpful concept.

Ian

On 1/20/07, skutvik at online.no <skutvik at online.no> wrote:
> 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
>
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