APOLOGISTS The truth of any religion is the actions produced by its adherents. A

APOLOGISTS

The truth of any religion is the actions produced by its adherents. A religion is not what you believe it is, it is what we observe the results of its practice are. I know this infuriates Neo-Puritans, Jews, Muslims and Hindus if not Buddhists and Catholics, but the net result of it is that your religion produces outcomes, and those outcomes if different from outcomes in other religions, determines the properties of your religion. Not what you believe, not what you practice, not what you profess, not what you study, not what you teach – but what people do with belief, practice, profession, study, teaching.

We have too much knowledge now that language, myth, narrative. ritual and belief are illusions that produce externalities. If you are poor, your culture and your religion, and that which you cherish, as well as the family you cherish, are responsible.

I don’t have any respect for devoted atheism. The mythic is too important a producer of outcomes. Our ancient myths, from the greek to the germanic, to the Arthurian to the American revolution, to the Burkeian, to the science fiction of the golden age are more important than our religious, and rationalist traditions.

The important reformations were Smiths (economics), and Darwin’s(our self image). . And the Marxist and syndicalist left, Jewish separatist, and neo puritan atheists, as well as the anti-Darwinian religious have attempted to suppress these narratives in an attempt to preserve authoritarianism: to preserve group bonds.

Curt Doolittle