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Friday, November 01, 2002

Oh, man, my Googlism is just sad:

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9:38:45 AM    comment []

Friday Five

1. Were you raised in a particular religious faith?

2. Do you still practice that faith? Why or why not?

3. What do you think happens after death?

4. What is your favorite religious ritual (participating in or just observing)?

5. Do you believe people are basically good?
I look at everything I find most abhorrent in society and the world today and there is one common factor: an embrace of the oft-repeated simple lie over the demands of the complicated truth. You tell people that "Drive = Love" often enough, and sure enough, they confuse a car for a relationship. You tell people that "God wills it" often enough, and sure enough, they fly planes into buildings, betray laws they're sworn to uphold, and contradict the very teachings they claim as their justification.

Ironically, it's in the universal religious impulse that humanity has, not just a willingness, but a need for a complexity to do justice to the myriad challenges that life presents. The question of "basic" goodness is pointless, because it compels no action. The diaries of Anne Frank or Viktor Frankl are not important because of their concluding paragraphs and whether they say "yes" or "no" to the question of "basic" human goodness, but because they are testimonies to the struggle for transcendance in the face of modern evil and they do compel action: they compel us to move away from positions of certitude and fanaticism and into positions where we are humble about our ability to discern what is for the best but pragmatically forge ahead anyway.


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