[Buddha-l] Return of blasphemy?

[Lidewij Niezink]

And then there is the good news: Steven Pinker

Pinker, S. (2011). * The Better Angels of our Nature.* , New York: Viking
http://stevenpinker.com/publications/better-angels-our-nature

For a review:
stevenpinker.com/sites/scholar.iq.harvard.edu/files/pinker/files/better_angels_shermer_american_scholar_review_0.pdf

cheers,
Lidewij

On 9 November 2011 23:20, Curt Steinmetz <curt at cola.iges.org> wrote:

> On 11/9/11 12:02 PM, Jo wrote:
> > Respect for religion in parts of the East is often enforced with death
> > threats.
> >
> > Joanna
> >
>
> We should not allow the Perfect to be the enemy of the Good. Relatively
> speaking, Eastern religions have a Good, if less than Perfect, track
> record with respect to religious violence. If we fail to acknowledge
> this fact on the ground, and give it proper attention, then we can are
> left only with useless abstractions.
>
> Among those who have gone on the record to state that "Western"
> religions (or, more precisely, "monotheisms", and in particular
> Christianity and Islam) are more prone to religiously inspired violence
> than are Eastern religions (Buddhism in particular) are (links are
> provided to help identify the people named below, they don't necessarily
> take one to examples of what I am talking about, although in some cases
> they do):
>
> David Loy
> http://davidloy.org/
> Bernard Faure
> http://www.columbia.edu/cu/religion/faculty-data/bernard-faure/faculty.html
> Arthur Versluis
> http://www.arthurversluis.com/about.htm
> Perez Zagorin
>
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/politics-obituaries/5487924/Professor-Perez-Zagorin.html
> Jan Assmann
> http://www.litrix.de/autoren/autor/janassmann/enindex.htm
> Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer
>
> http://www.religiousconsultation.org/News_Tracker/is_religion_killing_us.htm
> Regina M. Schwartz
> http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/741990.html
> Charles Freeman
>
> http://www.leftistreview.com/2010/11/10/the-closing-of-the-western-mind/tomparslow/
>
> Curt
>
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