Re: Can Extropianism and Islam coexist?

From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lee@piclab.com)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 15:47:49 MST

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    > (Noah Horton <nhorton@ectropic.org>):
    > So a discussion on tribalism has been raging recently and this brought to
    > mind a question of whether Islam is intrinsically an anti-extropian force.
    > If it is deemed to be such a force, a second question is whether that
    > means that Extropians as a tribe should be actively combatting it.

    All Abrahamic religions followed faithfully, and all religions
    followed fanatically, are anti-Extropian. The Abrahamic religions
    all teach that morality is based on blind obedience to a God that
    behaves like a spoiled brat, and not real knowledge of what harms
    people and what doesn't. Just look at the very first stories they
    give as moral lessons: God said don't eat from the tree of knowledge,
    they did, and they were cast out--no mention of /why/ it was bad,
    just God said so. The next story, God tells Abraham to kill his
    son, and instead of doing what any decent, moral human being and
    loving father would do and say "fuck you", he obeys, and we're
    supposed to conclude from that that he's a good man?

    Yes, we should be fighting such insidiously evil ideas, by
    spreading better ones.

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    Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lee/>
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