For Carrol and lou on religion

[Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 04:02  26/12/00 -0600, you wrote:


>gyanananda@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >
> > >The dead do not know they are dead, and hence
> > >death is a tragedy only for the living.
> >
> > How do you know this? Is this fact or is this
> > assertion without concrete investigation?
>
>It's part of my cultural inheritance. I am an atheist by
>birthright as it were. It allows me to spend my time
>thinking of rather more important things than the
>trivialities of immortality.
>
>The important thing is not to waste time proving that
>humans are not immortal. That is a given. The point
>of discussion is (a) how humans become adjusted to
>that fact and (b) how marxists relate to people who
>are still caught up in the metaphysical and historical
>tangles which the doctrine generates.
>
>Carrol


Nobody minds you being an atheist Carroll.  But there is a suggestion that
somehow we are all supposed to cheer about that, or award you extra
points.  At the risk of that flame you threatened me with let me point out
something about your attitude here.

You say you know you all about the necessity for alliances with religious
people. Yet you write about people being  "caught up" i.e. not as
advanced/liberated as you.  Do you seriously think that religious people
would not detect that attitude?

regards

Gary