Re: Power of the SCOTUS IX: The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the SCOTUS nine that day
My entire point in OP is that the religion is not the information, it's the carrier wave. I wish you would actually read what I write if you're going to take the trouble to respond to it. I genuinely appreciate the dialog, but in situations like this you have literally misread us as disagreeing when we are in agreement.
Here is the implied portion of my statement that you do disagree with: because an ideology is a good carrier wave to the extent that it is totalist, fundamentalist religion, well, more accurately literalist religion is an excellent carrier wave because it is totalist. Symbolic or metaphorical religion is less likely to be used to transmit a violent message because it does not present the believer with an all-or-nothing literalist choice. The part of the ideology that allows violence and extremism in its name is given gutter guards and moderation. It is tamed in the name of social utility -- the very opposite of the mission statement of a literalist faith.
Originally posted by 5mn_Major
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Here is the implied portion of my statement that you do disagree with: because an ideology is a good carrier wave to the extent that it is totalist, fundamentalist religion, well, more accurately literalist religion is an excellent carrier wave because it is totalist. Symbolic or metaphorical religion is less likely to be used to transmit a violent message because it does not present the believer with an all-or-nothing literalist choice. The part of the ideology that allows violence and extremism in its name is given gutter guards and moderation. It is tamed in the name of social utility -- the very opposite of the mission statement of a literalist faith.
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