Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:00:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Robert Clark <res03db2@gte.net>, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fundamentalism (was Re: helping victims of terror) Message-ID: <1001937627.3bb85adb50217@webmail.neomedia.it> In-Reply-To: <xzp4rpjk5rl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <1001447850.3bb0e1aa11dfc@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010925222900.A71817@lpt.ens.fr> <1001463692.3bb11f8ccca43@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010926104925.A318@lpt.ens.fr> <1001617805.3bb3798d9bd0f@webmail.neomedia.it> <20010930131707.A1004@darkstar.gte.net> <1001932037.3bb845057872f@webmail.neomedia.it> <xzp4rpjk5rl.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote<des@ofug.org>:
> Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it> writes:
> > I am afraid that the two world wars had little to do with religion;
> > and a good number of other more "limited" wars have nothing to do
> > with religion. Nationalism/race (cf "lebensraum" ~ "living space")
> > makes an excellent pretext (cf world war II); [more or less
> > "scientific"] ideology makes another.
>
> You mean to say that those aren't religions?!
Nice remark.
I would say that the negation of religion may be pursued with religious zeal
(!), ideology replacing religion.
Yes, those who [believe that they] possess The One Truth may be as zealous and
dangerous as fundamentalists.
Nowadays, Freedom of Thought is real luxury.
-- Salvo
P.S. Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
--Salvo Bart^W^WOscar Wilde
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