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picture22 Feb 2007 @ 00:14, by Unknown

Is unquestioning belief making a global comeback? The growth of religious fundamentalism seems to suggest so. For the skeptically-minded this is a deeply worrying trend, not just confined to religion. Political, economic, and scientific theories can demand the same unquestioning obedience from the general public. Stuart Sim outlines the history of skepticism in both the Western and Islamic cultural traditions, and from the Enlightenment to postmodernism. Setting out what a skeptical politics might be like, "Empires of Belief" argues that we need less belief and more doubt: an engaged skepticism to replace the pervasive dogmatism that threatens our democracies.

Stuart Sim is Professor of Critical Theory at the University of Sunderland.


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22 Feb 2007 @ 05:06 by vaxen : Doubt...
and Scepticism are the mirrors of belief, their anti-podes, if you will, which generate anti-thesis and keep the ball rolling on and on and on...

Off the loop and back to deep hyperdimentional space, then beyond that, even, unto source... you.

Forget it all and simply be who you are. that will proove to be an all consuming task. Hard to look within for answers to existential questions, isn't it? Q & A indicate unfinished 'cycles...'

thanks for the interesting thought/plays, though, Mr. Anonymous...  

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