Had Linnaeus had the courage to defy the churchmen, we might now be less anthropocentric, more humble and have more empathy with the other inhabitants of the planet.
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The conviction was in the Mysteries that there is death and resurrection, just as crops go into the ground and die and come back again for a new season in a wonderful kind of way. So also in human life we go through a kind of death and resurrection… Early Christians took the model of the mystery religions and retold that story as the story of Jesus.
Give or take a few, it’s been 23771 months since the first coming of Christ ended. The Rapture can’t be long now… Can it?
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Carl Sagan writes that many pseudoscientific and new age beliefs come from dissatisfaction with conventional values and perspectives and are really a kind of scepticism. Thus David Hess (Science and the New Age) argues that “a large number of sincere people are exploring alternative approaches to questions of personal meaning, spirituality, healing, and paranormal experience in general.” What these sincere people do not realize is that their “alternative approaches” are not new at all — they are seriously old hat. It is science that is new, only 300 years or so old, yet has taught us more in that historically short time than religions and “spirituality” have taught us in the whole of the existence of humanity. Perhaps what they want is science to be put to more beneficial uses instead of to destruction, but that is a social choice, not a scientific one. Science is subject to governmental and corporate decisions, and these are what new age believers, and scientific critics in traditional religions too, ought to be changing. It is too political for pseudo mystics.
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