[LINK] Good reason to worry about our democracy

[Jan Whitaker]

At 01:39 PM 5/12/2011, Tom Koltai wrote:
>Few have analysed that the basis of the meme is unfortunately drilled
>into us from a very early age, viz: The majority of the worlds
>population moral basis emanates from outdated religious ethical
>standards, e.g.: the old testament tells the children of Abraham to take
>an eye for eye and the modern day equivalent is "Rambo".

I'm reading Christopher Hitchens' book, God Is Not Great. Explains a 
lot. It's not just the Abrahamic religions (which includes Islam). 
There is a section on Hindus versus Buddhists (India/Sri Lanka) and 
Buddhists versus non-Buddhists (Japan in WW2 as Imperial Buddhism). 
Extreme anything is problematic, be it the religion of 'capitalism' 
or 'democracy' (often pseudo-democracy) or the traditional 'isms'. 
I'm waiting for 'balancism' and 'tolerancism', then I might 'join'.

Jan


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