RE: virus: playing safe with supernaturalism

Chelstad, Erik (chelste@data-io.com)
Fri, 12 Jun 1998 14:43:25 -0800


>I did not mean to imply that I thought <religion> was going to
continue to >be a
>succesfull meme. In fact, I think that within my life time the
%infected by
><religion> will fall dramatically. In this case I feel it is
because the
>environment is changing. <Religion> will either have to mutate
(I think so
>radically it will be difficult to still call it <religion> ) or
will be replaced
>by a more virulant meme. Possibly psuedo-science.

Not to oversimplify too much, but isn't religion already a
pseudo-science?
Wasn't the initial attraction to religion the search for answers and
control?

As far as my disdain word-choice, I understand Jake's point.
I guess I just applied it due to the over-all feeling I get from
religion's
"with us or against us" attitude. Again, not all, but just the over-all
impression (yes, yes, aka stereotype).

On a semi-off-to-the-side remark, Jake, have you (or anyone else)
read Tom Robbin's "Another Roadside Attraction" and sympathized with
the plight of the balloon pilot and the body of Jesus?

eEc