[FoRK] More faith-driven insanity: kill the teacher!

[Jeff Bone]

On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:35 PM, Luis Villa wrote:

> On Nov 30, 2007 3:14 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Luis Villa wrote:
>>
>>> On Nov 30, 2007 1:56 PM, Jeff Bone <jbone at place.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Luis Villa wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Violent religion is the symptom, not the cause.
>>>>
>>>> I disagree.  In fact, that's a ridiculous assertion on the face of
>>>> it.
>>>
>>> It's only ridiculous if you're not paying attention to basic
>>> political-behavioral psychology. Fear, threat, and uncertainty cause
>>> irrational, violent behavior against the Other; sometimes that shows
>>> up as religion, but often as politics, or tribalism, or what have  
>>> you.
>>
>> Agreed with all of that;  but that in no way suggests, much less
>> PROVES, causality flowing *from* any of those things *to* religion!
>
> Religion is just the tool used to fulfill the much more primal need.

I don't see it that way;  it's a nasty memetic monkey on humanity's  
back.

This really devolves, I suppose, to a question of whether one  
believes in the literal existence of memes.

I do.

jb