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Subject: [Leica] Boston T and Bob Dylan
From: don.dory at gmail.com (Don Dory)
Date: Thu May 18 07:47:28 2006
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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
> >> > ----------------------------------
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> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >
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