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 An Atheist's Defence Of Religion Author: Richard Handler Source: CBC News (Canada) Title: AN ATHEIST'S DEFENCE OF RELIGION If there were as such a thing as a scholar-gunslinger, it would be Camille Paglia, the American critic and teacher. That's the image she offered us on the cover of Vamps and Tramps, her 1994 collection of essays. Camille is dressed in black, hands raised mid-air, wearing a holster over her hip. But her main weapon is not the classic six-shooter (or the punk makeup she wears on the cover). It's the Gatling gun that sprays words from her sprightly and sputtering mouth. Take cover. Her thoughts ricochet like a good ol' fashioned western shootout. Camille had come to defend religion, she said, but as an atheist who respects it. | |
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| Laws Of Moses For The Social Good? | Jun 24th. at 11:29:47 pm EDT |
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Ahr-Ohn (Bridgeport, Connecticut) - Email Me When Jesus was teaching, he favored what the Pharices taught, and what modern Wiccans Teach, but the Pharices were all talk, "Dog's in the Manger, who neither ate, nor allowed others to do so." Equally devided, of Hebrew Teachers, were the Sadduces, who taught that The Law was for the Social Good, rather than the Spiritual. I'd take Paganism to mean, making prescribed sacrifices unto the Demigods, which includes most interpretations of Christianity, and that's only one of many lines of Religion. Without it, culture would revert to fear and despair," All Civil Order is based on Religion, but Mysteries are hard to codify into Law. Arawn Graalrd |
| Am I Reading This Right? | Jun 24th. at 12:58:21 pm EDT |
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Tacitala (Akin, Illinois) - Email Me Paglia feels religion "is not a set of specific beliefs, or theology". Does that make anyone else's had hurt? I think I know what she's trying to aim for- belief in all the gods (as she professes) but not a prescribed worship of them. The article might call her paradoxical, but I'm just going to call the woman confused. |
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