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Which is a touchier subject: religion or politics?
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Now as we back away from the extreme of transcendental invisibles into social invisibles and into grounding then the arguments become less heated because they are no longer about ultimates and there is some attempt to justify what is said on the basis of some evidence. But the next step back is into ratio, i.e. representable intangibles that we reason about (party platforms, etc.)
@Will Newman To your comment about questioning people's values over issues such as abortion and racism and war, how much of those beliefs can be reduced to religious tenets? [Taxes don't fit *as* nicely here, but they aren't wholly excluded, either.]
@sharad harjai I think many very religious people *do* care which religion you follow, but I think you touch on an interesting point here. I'm pretty certain that Namesake's current crowd is a skewed sample, so to us--agreed, most of us don't judge religious beliefs. To an extent, I would argue that many people don't *choose* religion; they endorse what they were born into and raised believing. In that regard, I almost feel like religion isn't something that can be wholly attributed to a person (or, less elegantly, "blamed on" him or her). Of course, that's a gross oversimplification of an issue that has far more nuance, but I wonder how much that line of reasoning underlies our (the self-selected/invited early Namesakers) general consensus that religion isn't as reflective of a person's value choices.
@Julian Miller : I was about to agree with you, but then I thought of all the political assassinations and the genocides that have taken place over the years, so I think--while polarized religious groups are more widely villified--I think that's more a function of contemporary media than it is of the real underlying nature of the behavior.
To get out of this situation in my book (and I really have books to point to) what we need to understand how all these problems are manifestations of Nihilism as Nietzsche and Heidegger warned us, and by understanding how nihilism works (as the dual of emergence) then we can better understand how to make non-nihilistic (that is to say nondual) distinctions in our lives.
@Carlos Alvarez-Aranyos So true. But alas, I again underscore the complex society --> underequipped citizenry --> media problem. [Did I honestly just use the word "alas" like it was no big deal?]