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Re: Constructed Religions

From:Charles <catty@...>
Date:Thursday, December 31, 1998, 18:08
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/