04.19.11
Confusion over the ‘resurrection’
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/does-resurrection-contradict-science/
Coyne rightly fingerwags the tour de force of accomodationist: fast talking the resurrection.
I think that Xtians have forgotten, what many critics from the Indian religion have not, just how strange their ‘religion’ is, and the way in which its demands on ‘faith’ became unreasonable, and that long ago.
The question of the resurrection is strangely proving an ally to secularism: the doctrine can persist in a theocracy, but in a secular culture the belief system slowly but surely erodes.
In any case, religion is ill-served by the promotion of fantastic beliefs. Over and out.
The simple doctrines of Buddhism, for example, went out of their way to be wary of such excess baggage.
Having said all this, while I am critical of the doctrine of resurrection, I am of the opinion that the question has been misunderstood by later Christian dogmatists who couldn’t decipher the record of Jesus’ death, and lived long after the event.
As pointed out here every Easter, the enigma has a reasonably simple solution, one that proponents of scientism won’t buy: the disciples of Jesus in the wake of his crucifixion experienced what disciples in all ages have experienced near dead gurus: a mysterious ‘spirit presence’ that triggers all sorts of experiences mostly subjective, but at the core based on the sensing of a departed soul. That experience in simple men unsophisticated in such matters rapidly turned into a kind of myth of resurrection.
Darwinists/scientism fanatics will have problems here also, but they have a resource in the real founder of their subject, Alfred Wallace (plagiarized by Darwin), who took to table-rapping later in life, realizing that the question of ghosts had not been settled by hard science. Ghosts, in fact, are one aspect of the ‘hard problem’.
The Gurdjieff Con » The issue of the ‘resurrection’ said,
April 19, 2011 at 11:37 am
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Paul said,
April 20, 2011 at 4:11 am
An interesting post – which poses many questions ‘spirit presences’; ‘departed souls’ – and the ‘hard problem’ (hard for who – and why?). Souls…..I know of one ‘scientific’ tradition that has no problem with postmortality…the argentine/german tradition of electroneurobiology! Except they would talk of psyches. Each one not another:
http://knol.google.com/k/cadacualtez-or-why-one-is-not-another#
Darwiniana » Comment on Resurrection post said,
April 20, 2011 at 12:06 pm
[...] Comment on Resurrection post Paul said, April 20, 2011 at 4:11 am · An interesting post – which poses many questions ‘spirit presences’; ‘departed souls’ – and the ‘hard problem’ (hard for who – and why?). Souls…..I know of one ‘scientific’ tradition that has no problem with postmortality…the argentine/german tradition of electroneurobiology! Except they would talk of psyches. Each one not another: [...]