Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com>wrote: Subject: Re: [Leica] Blog Updated: First Communion >Nice traditional set of photographs. >Actually, whenever I am on the streets around a religious artifice or >building, (which is very often!) and watch the blind rituals, shorn of most >meaning, going on, I really wonder why, when most of the world's dangerous >fracture points, violence and imbecile behaviour is associated with >religion, are people logically still religious? Is it the psychological >comfort of tribal loyalty upgraded for modern society? >End of rant! Cheers Jayanand ==================================================================================================== Since about age 13, I've wondered the same thing. If only it was art, music, etc. that was the predominant result of faith, and not conflict. Alan Alan Magayne-Roshak, Senior Photographer University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Photo Services (Retired) UPAA POY 1978 amr3 at uwm.edu http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Alan+Magayne-Roshak/ "All the technique in the world doesn't compensate for an inability to notice. " - Elliott Erwitt