Armstrong has advanced a counter-intuitive theory of religious fundamentalism[citation needed], key to understanding the movements as they emerged in the late fifteenth and twentieth centuries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_ArmstrongCentral to her reading of history is the notion that premodern cultures possessed two complementary and indispensable ways of thinking, speaking and knowing: mythos and logos. Mythos was concerned with meaning; it "provided people with a context that made sense of their day-to-day lives; it directed their attention to the eternal and the universal" [5]. Logos, on the other hand, dealt with practical matters. It forged ahead, elaborating on old insights, mastering the environment, and creating fresh and new things. Armstrong argues that modern Western society has lost the sense of mythos and enshrined logos as its foundation. Mythical narratives and the rituals and meanings attached to them have ceded authority to that which is rational, pragmatic and scientific - but which does not assuage human pain or sorrow, and cannot answer questions about the ultimate value of human life. However, far from embarking on a wholesale rejection of the modern emphasis in favour of the old balance, the author contends, religious fundamentalists unwittingly turn the mythos of their faith into logos. Fundamentalism is a child of modernity, and fundamentalists are fundamentally modern.
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Human pain and sorrow are the antagonist of ultimate value of human life?
Nowadays, is it called depression or stress?
I think as a human, you have to learn to accept the consequence of your responsibility before attempting to act on it.
a life can be painful if you think it is a pailful one. no one can make you happy but yourself...
For example,
life is not fair, accept it and move on with your day-to-day lives..
life has many joys and sorrows, please enjoy both...
life can be ugly and beautiful, please accept it.
life will be meaningless if you make an attempt to compare yours to someone.
life can be exciting or boring, if you believe in faith.. your life will be boring...(my opinion.)
life serves no practical value if you don't contribute your life to the human society.
life can be simple if you refuse to take anything from human society.
life can be complicated if you think it is complicated.
life can be interacting if you give to and take from the society.
life is short as if a form of battery. you can run out the energy... *_*
life cannot be recycle.
life needs luck to make bad and good decision.
life takes sustenance
life takes brain
life takes religion?
life takes science.
life needs goodness. the goodness is from evolution (time + trials = Y), not from creation (X created Y)
life takes human potential.... ^_^
So much about life.. yet I dont see it pailful rather hopeful..
Religion is not the drug for the ultimate value of human life.. yet I see it as a product of primitive human activity....
So much about religion, so much about Quixotic... ^_^
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