[Dialogue] Updating RS3A World Religions

[steve har]

Steven Prothero: God Is Not One

Interview: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/223591

squib notes:

living in the presence of questions not answers

wrestling the god question

religions are conversations

8 major conversations

basically all similar? No different

Not doing pc, not doing neo-con

old idea: 1 true vs the rest false

old idea: different paths up the same mountain

gap between scholars of religion and popular views

parable: elephant gropers vs 1 elephant; who says 1 elephant?

god: I don't know and you don't either

major faiths? no not faith in unseen but different human questions

Isn't there a multi-cultural salvation? no

Buddhism is about reducing suffering

Christianity is about salvation

Confucianism is about creating social order

Islam is about remembering your own pride & pride throughout a culture

Taoism is about human flourishing & freedom

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Karen: I don't know... Hubert Dreyfus is a well know philosopher at UC
Berkeley
He's taught for 40 years there especially Kierkegaard & Heidegger
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Steve Harrington
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