[Buddha-l] Prominent Neobuddhist proposes religion based blacklisting for government jobs

[Piya Tan]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:29 PM, S. A. Feite <sfeite at roadrunner.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Curt Steinmetz wrote:
>
> > I wonder if you could please describe, in your own words, what you
> > find
> > so troubling about those slides, and how it rises to the level of
> > justifying discrimination in hiring on the basis of a person's
> > religious
> > beliefs?
>
> There is no scientific evidence of god, let alone that a god created
> our universe, that god is behind the mechanism of evolution, that
> part of god's special plan was "man", that this same god gifted us
> with moral precepts (sorry Cecil B. Demille!), that breaking these
> alleged moral laws upsets this god and estranges us from the god.
>

Apology accepted: It is not Demille, but "de Mille," by the way.


>
> What he's espousing is a modified creationism, with god (presumably
> IHVH, with Jesus as sidekick in this case) orchestrating the
> previously out-of-fashion evolution. I would suspect we'll see
> Quantum theory eventually thrown into the mix. Hey, the Vedic
> creationists do it, why can't Jehovanists? Monotheism and Unified
> field theories were <ahem> a match made in heaven!
>
> If you want to imagine such non-scientific ideas, fine, I respect
> your right to do so; but to have the head of the premier health-
> research organization on the planet espousing non-scientific tribal
> mythology is extremely disturbing, even if strangely American.
>
> Of course I'd like to hear what Ramtha has to say about all this
> before I say anything further. Is J.Z. Knight on this list?
>
> Steve
>
>
> Slide 1: “Almighty God, who is not limited in space or time, created a
> universe 13.7 billion years ago with its parameters precisely tuned to
> allow the development of complexity over long periods of time.”
>
> Slide 2: “God’s plan included the mechanism of evolution to create the
> marvelous diversity of living things on our planet. Most especially,
> that creative plan included human beings.”
>
> Slide 3: “After evolution had prepared a sufficiently advanced
> ‘house’ (the human brain), God gifted humanity with the knowledge of
> good and evil (the moral law), with free will, and with an immortal
> soul.”
>
> Slide 4: “We humans used our free will to break the moral law, leading
> to our estrangement from God. For Christians, Jesus is the solution to
> that estrangement.”
>
>
>
>
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