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"Do you do voodoo?"

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

Steve aren't you Christian?

It's always fun to hear believers of one kind of magic making fun of believers of a a different kind.

6/27/07, 5:17 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ozzie Guillen led the White Sox to the World Series, what have you done?

6/27/07, 7:38 PM

Blogger Jedster said...

I'm glad you've stopped linking to your inaccurate "Freeswinging Latins" theory.

6/28/07, 2:18 AM

Anonymous daveg said...

Hey, you don't "walk" off the lsland, my friend. You hit your way off.

6/28/07, 5:36 AM

Anonymous Gary said...

Whatever you may think of belief in God in general or Christianity in particular, can anyone really argue that practicing Santeria isn't superstitious, irrational behavior?

Myself, I'd be interested to know what the average IQ is of the players who practice Santeria. My money says it's well below 90.

6/28/07, 6:38 AM

Anonymous Andershot said...

I'm a Revilo Oliver Atheist, but I think there's no question there's a huge difference in the level of a religion like Christianity and a chicken killing cult like Santeria. It's a lower form of mentality.

6/28/07, 2:33 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

As to whether Christianity or Santeria or for that matter any religion is valid or not, your guess is as good as mine.

Stick to what you are good at and quit digressing.

6/28/07, 6:34 PM

Anonymous essex said...

I'm a Revilo Oliver Atheist, but I think there's no question there's a huge difference in the level of a religion like Christianity and a chicken killing cult like Santeria. It's a lower form of mentality.

That's because Christianity has had 2,000 years of cultural domination to build a body of theology and philosophy. When it started out, it was a cult, pure and simple. Once it became the dominant - indeed, for most of the last two milennia, the mandatory - religion of the West, intellectual life flourished within the Church and continued to do so post-Reformation almost to the present day. That gives Christianity an air of respectability that younger religions don't have. The underlying story, however, is still purely faith-based supernatural stuff.

If Santeria grew into the established religion of a huge culture system and then endured for a couple of thousand years, you'd see plenty of deep-thinking and no chicken-killing.

6/30/07, 2:57 PM

Anonymous Snuffleuffagus said...

I'm a Revilo Oliver Atheist, but I think there's no question there's a huge difference in the level of a religion like Christianity and a chicken killing cult like Santeria. It's a lower form of mentality.

That's because Christianity has had 2,000 years of cultural domination to build a body of theology and philosophy. When it started out, it was a cult, pure and simple. Once it became the dominant - indeed, for most of the last two milennia, the mandatory - religion of the West, intellectual life flourished within the Church and continued to do so post-Reformation almost to the present day. That gives Christianity an air of respectability that younger religions don't have. The underlying story, however, is still purely faith-based supernatural stuff.


About some religions of modernity, I'd buy that. Santeria isn't new: it's the old paganism, of the crudest variety. It is a low order of religious practice. Christianity is precisely a highly evolved cult, because, it was adopted and adapted by a highly advanced race, relatively speaking.

It didn't continuously evolve over those 2000 years. It made three or four or five, depending on your views, major steps, and it could be argued it did so because its adherents themselves evolved and adapted it to meet their current needs.

As that group evolved, its "alternate religions" evolved as well. Compare the Satanism of medieval times with that of, say, Anton LaVey. The change mirrors that in Christianity. Consider also medieval Gnosticism, as compared to, perhaps, Mormonism, or Christian Science. (CS is nearly extinct, but just fifty years ago was, next to Episcopalianism, the toniest religion for Air Force officers. Many celebs either practiced it actively or were largely influenced by a childhood exposure to it.)

7/1/07, 2:07 AM

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