Mustard wrote:
moss wrote:
....us white Europeans that have no respect for other peoples strongly held religious views!
Hmmmm. "Religious views" are a funny old thing though. What's the difference between deeply held religious views that deserve respect, and unscientific and outdated superstitious rubbish? Serious question, by the way. I'm of no clear opinion on the subject. I find it odd that we respect certain "religious" positions, while (rightly) disparaging others.
In a way you answer your own question, we take very subjective viewpoints one way or the other.....
Tjukurpa = dreaming in the Aborigine culture, it is a philosophical level of understanding the natural world around them and relating to what we call Creation, so it is a million miles from our concept of a god, and that is what struck me something totally different. If you read about the interaction between Australian indigenous people and the white settlers, the slow understanding that the Aborigine culture needs respect for the land, i.e. sacredness, took a very long time. So perhaps that was what I was thinking of, I do not want to go into the new religious wave that takes hold within the old stones, so many cults/beliefs have been formed over the centuries, what I do know however is that we should respect the individual and his/her belief even if we find it irrational and illogical.
This morning I said Buddhism is a religion and LS corrects me by saying no it is a philosophy because there are no gods, so I am beginning to believe that the fine division between religion and philosophy needs some more thought. ;)
