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Re: Apocalypse seems to be on your mind lately

Posted by diogenes on 2024-August-31 07:43:03, Saturday
In reply to Apocalypse seems to be on your mind lately posted by slvrspun on 2024-August-30 12:56:41, Friday

Well, it's all these Youtube videos. It seems that we have reached a stage in human history when it is easier for us to imagine future scenarios involving the total destruction of the biosphere than it is to imagine the supercession of capitalism.

Religious zealotry in high places is definitely a danger. But let us not blame some abstraction such as 'religion' for our problems. An ordinary Catholic or evangelical Christian, who perhaps has a Bible study class once a week and helps out at a local homeless shelter (and there must be many such in America) is doing some good; and I am not disposed to start criticising them for their Christian faith.

(Of course, it is not a faith that I share. My only characteristic that might be considered quasi-religious is my biophilia, which I find consorts well with my philosophical materialism.)

Have you seen the film Testament with Lukas Haas? I expect you have. It certainly succeeds in confronting more of the truth of nuclear war than The Day After.

diogenes

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