“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Sunday, October 2, 2011

Religion and Evolution

Since Adrian Ivakhiv was so kind to comment on a recent essay of mine perhaps we could chat about this, Robert Bellah's magnum opus on religion and evolution.

I'll say one thing for now. HT Bill Benzon for the New York Times piece in which this appears:

“As some of us know, and all of us should know,” Bellah warns, “we are in the midst of the sixth great extinction event at this very moment” in which “we may well blow each other up with atomic weapons before we wipe out all species of life, including our own, by more gradual means.” Bellah calls this “deep history.” I call it sheer speculation.


Wrong, Alan Wolfe!

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