"Deference, Humility, and Awe": BCS on religion, physics, epistemology, and cognitive sciencehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBu2seUFlY0 …
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Helpful when watching to know Brian’s father, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, pointed out problems in concept of “religion” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Cantwell_Smith …
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Protestant critique of Catholic church reqd abstraction. Ritual was one abstraction demonized, then projected on to Indian traditions...
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...during colonization with missionaries working hand in glove with east india co. john stuart mill provided basis for exploitation...
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...of barbarians of India...a moral reason to be immoral...to weed out rituals and the brahmans who were projected to be catholic priests..
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...and then to 'discover' that the hindoos too had a protestant awakening in the buddha...but you know that story and have connected dots...
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...to western buddhism...carrying embedded in it the protestant ethics of european enlightenment..
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