Re: Constructed Religions

Padraic Brown wrote:
>
> On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>
> > At 09:55 AM 12/31/98 -0500, Hawksinger wrote:
> >
> > >On the other hand, a people without religion should (IMHO) advance in
> > >science and knowledge much more rapidly.
> > I don't think this is a given.  I've heard the argument that it was
> > the Judeo-Christian world-view that fostered early scientific
> > inquiry
> It might seem
> that scientific advance might come more swiftly to people without
> Otherworldly baggage in tow, for they might not spend eons cowering in
> fear of the gods.
The ancient Harappa culture of the Indus seems to have been
a theocracy, with minimal militarism or royal trappings.
Many resources otherwise wasted on warfare etc are then
available for other things. Maybe it balances out, whether
a culture is militaristic, priest-ridden (in James Joyce's
phrase), or trade/commercially-oriented. But a culture
needs something more than tv to hold it together ...
Cool URL: http://www.harappa.com/