[geeks] Goodbye, I guess

[Phil Stracchino]

Sandwich Maker wrote:
> " From: Phil Stracchino <phil.stracchino at speakeasy.net>
> " Yeah, I have the impression many of the Indo-Asian-origin faiths
> " encourage believers to think about these things (and to think in
> " general), whereas Western-origin ones mostly seem to want their
> " adherents to just sit down, shut up, and believe as they're told.
> 
> well, christianity and islam certainly.  judaism seems to have
> absorbed a large dose of greek philosophical ovjectivity, but i don't
> know if there's enough known about the practice of previous western
> religions to truly say what they were like.

Yeah, Judaism with its Talmudic scholars tends not to follow that mold.
 And there are even capital-C "Christian" sects that escape the trap of
unquestionable dogma here and there.  (Consider some of the Jesuits, for
example.)


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