rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn) (07/10/84)
>This business of 'religion as a drug' is one of the biggest peices of baloney >I've ever heard. Uh, is it a drug or a security blanket? (I.e., what complaint are we discussing?) >Moses got chased out of Egypt, yelled at by YHWH,...Jeremiah spent most >of his life hiding...David the king lost his friend Jonathan and many of >his children...The apostles were all martyred... As it is written, we've got a handful of people who were intelligent, tenacious, outspoken, and willing to challenge established authority. So, first of all, it's not surprising that they had things rough, and second, that doesn't have squat to do with the average Joe and how religion influences him. Just because a few leaders were religious and sought answers to the hard questions, you don't have any basis for saying that most people take religion that way. Actually, I think that the point that someone was trying to make a while back is that the bulk of religious folk take the predigested wisdom of the few leaders and accept it with little thought and even less questioning. -- Dick Dunn {hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd (303)444-5710 x3086 ...Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.