content: politics of religion|art | soft meaning's end in liminality

When Marx called organized religion the 'opiate' I don't know if he realized that he had just synthesized heroin.

Organized religion's vested interests come with the package any way to 'look' at it, but this doesn't mean that it's not a positive influence on humankind. Organized religion is just a mixed blessing in that regard, that's all.

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Another way to see it is that the grievances of the past were not actually religion, but politics. This is a bad argument, because then "religion" becomes anything the speaker wishes it to be. A "slippery slope" argument, if you will, as throughout intellectual history/reconstruction and rationalization of old dogmas/ clinging to anachronistic catechisms…they have all used this argument. The phenomenon of "religion" just retreats more and more into something that can't be pinned down on anything, a liminal non-idea, a sign.

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This "soft" definition of religion is even more true for art.






Vijay
-please comment, correct, and criticize, rhizome
+ Does this look like some kind of a futuristic Urdu script? :

;;,;,,,;,,;.,/;,.;;.//,.',;.,;'./,;.,;;,;;;,/,.,,,,;/,;,.,//

hehe maybe not
> "S Yasir Husain" <husain@cyber.net.pk> <disco@junglist.com>, <list@rhizome.org> RE: : ;;.;::::;;;.:..,.,,,,,;.,,;.;;,;.,;:::::::::, .,.;,; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:46:06 -0800
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>Rock on! [emoticognibalancedly, he thought]
>
>Or as they might say in punjabi:
> Oah' ballay-ballay[h] !
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>'political vested interests as a fundamental problem of organized
>religion'
> = is the same as =
>history of islam 1 ::
>political brutal-vested interest tribal-mesopotamian-bureaucratic
>machinery = caliphate (mostly 99.9 \%?) !!!!
>
>Caliphal propaganda meant to terrorize and keep in submission [80\%?] ::
>the equivalent of the +church+ in the )caliphate( except:
>
>the caliph is also the state :: [no church||state separation] in the
>pretense of power of the caliph/s (when 2).
>
>history of islam 2 ::
>The challengers !!!! ::
>chaos is ]]]not[[[ preferable to [[[[~peace~]]]] in society.
>
>Hence don't judge a book/s by its cover::
>'political vested interests as a fundamental problem of organized
>religion'
>is recorded history [powergood rubbing shoulders with powerevil] for
>those
>who look : have the desire to look, know where to look:
>
>The look




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