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May 17, 2006

Hack Watch

by AltHippo @ 3:06 pm. Filed under Uncategorized

Did you know that while it’s reasonable to believe in organized religion, or be an atheist, but mysticism (outside that of organized religion) is a crock?

That’s what I learned today.

As the world’s doughiest neocon put it:

On what grounds do I claim that, say, the mystical healing power of crystals or the “obviousness” of reincarnation are obviously absurd fairy tales, but the story of Jesus’ Resurrection is plain for all to see?

Wait a minute, that made sense. That was a perfectly reasonable question. Oops, looks like I pasted it wrong. His actual strawman was:

On what grounds do they claim that, say, the story of Jesus’ Resurrection is an obviously absurd fairy tale, but the mystical healing power of crystals or the “obviousness” of reincarnation are plain for all to see?

I’m just imagining the canine look of puzzlement as this current crop of opinionists read Plato’s Timaeus or Republic, Dostoevsky, Herman Hesse, or Victor Hugo, all of whom address the nature of religious philosophy, morality and/or mysticism outside of organized religion. Or, maybe they all attended schools whose affirmative action for right-wing opinionists program allowed them to forego such heresy.

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