Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/05/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thank you for the reference. Don don.dory@gmail.com On 5/18/06, Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: > > The 30 year war seems to be our common faultline. > How Europe related, and still relates, to itself, and made > religionized and politicized acitivty convertible, is a lesson > sorely avoided. It just seems that we've applied the same criteria to > economic participation. > While we don't kill people for not following religious beliefs within > a hegemonic culture in the West, the same can't be said with belief > in economic systems. > An interesting critic of this has been Wilfred Cantwell Smith. His > "The Meaning and End of Religion: A New Approach to the Religious > Traditions of Mankind", (1963) is still a good read today. > Most people when asked about religious revival assume it is a process > that is outward, and coupled with expansionism. In reality, it is an > inward event affecting all the major, and minor, traditions as they > strive for internal uniformity. Unfortunately, it is done heedless of > the human cost. > But I think we've entered a topic drift area outside the scope of our > "affinity group" criteria. > > Slobodan Dimitrov > Studio G-8, > Angels Gate Cultural Center > http://sdimitrovphoto.com > > > > > > On May 18, 2006, at 6:54 AM, Don Dory wrote: > > > Slobodan, > > Please expand on that line of thought. This is an area that you > > have far > > more knowledge of than I do. To my meager knowledge, a lot of the > > religious > > wars were typical expand and conquest for power and riches masked > > by an > > excuse, this time Christianity or Islam in the West, but also > > Romanism vs. > > Protestantism at a different time. > > > > Likewise, my understanding of the spread of Catholicism in Latin > > America was > > initially all about enforcing but fairly quickly brought into a more > > voluntary proselytising mode. > > > > Don > > don.dory@gmail.com > > > > > > On 5/18/06, Slobodan Dimitrov <s.dimitrov@charter.net> wrote: > >> > >> The term "spreading" is convertible with "enforcing." > >> Which means that we're in the very same boat Western Europeans found > >> themselves during the religious wars. > >> > >> Slobodan Dimitrov > >> Studio G-8, > >> Angels Gate Cultural Center > >> http://sdimitrovphoto.com > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On May 18, 2006, at 6:31 AM, Kenneth Frazier wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > On May 18, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Walt Johnson wrote: > >> > > >> >> besides consumption. That, and the fantasy of spreading > >> >> "democracy" throughout the world. > >> > > >> > Aren't they the same thing? ;-) > >> > > >> > Ken > >> > ----------------------------------- > >> > The Rev. Kenneth Frazier > >> > Connecticut Conference, United Church of Christ > >> > ---------------------------------- > >> > Current Leica Photography (PESO): > >> > http://tinyurl.com/6sc2r > >> > > >> > Current Medium Format Photos: > >> > http://tinyurl.com/bjvfn > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > _______________________________________________ > >> > Leica Users Group. > >> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more > >> information > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> Leica Users Group. > >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >