LuckyR wrote: ↑December 21st, 2018, 8:05 pm
Mark1955 wrote: ↑December 21st, 2018, 5:48 pm
If only most of the religious people saw it that way. I've often been told that the holy book is not just facts it is the only source of facts.
Yes, the fundamentalists. Just goes to show: it takes all kinds to make a world.
'It takes all kinds to make a world'. Indeed.
So isn't that what all 'isms' are reducible to ?
Human impulse, desire and need to control or improve self and others. In philosophy, politics, religion, psychology... it's all about competing stories.
Theism would seem to be in the top 10 and still the most powerful people controller. Humanism comes in where...
' An ism is a suffix in many English words, originally derived from the Ancient Greek suffix -ισμός (-ismós), and reaching English through the Latin -ismus, and the French -isme.[1] It means "taking side with" or "imitation of", and is often used to describe philosophies, theories, religions, social movements, artistic movements and behaviors.[2] The suffix "-ism" is neutral and therefore bears no connotations associated with any of the many ideologies it identifies; such determinations can only be informed by public opinion regarding specific ideologies.
The concept of an -ism may resemble that of a grand narrative.'
From:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism