[ SECRET POST #3702 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3702 ⌋

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[ketita]

Hm, I see what you mean. And yeah, that's not really compatible.

The thing is, there are certain political issues - such as the ones brought up here, actually - that you could argue about its political presence within certain religions. For example, neither Christianity nor Islam existed when Judaism first showed up, so you can argue about how deeply rooted in Jewish theology political responses to these religions are. And I would also argue that not all theological responses are political ones, because to me they're dealing with fundamentally different aspects of life. But I can also accept if you disagree with me on that one.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah I mean I don't think we're going to sort this one out, it's a pretty central and deep philosophical question. Like I said, deep and dangerous waters.

I guess for practical purposes I can rephrase my initial point as: there might be some limitations and issues with considering religions from a purely theological point of view.

[ketita]

I can get behind that. It's not that I'm saying that there can never be any political element to religion, but I do think it can be useful to differentiate between theological and political and elements that are a mixture of both within a religion.
For example, Religion A saying "all members of Religion B are evil hellspawn born of the Destroyer" may have political roots, but it's being couched in theological concepts, so I'd lean towards theology for that specific issue.
Then again, the question comes down to what exactly we're trying to define and discuss etc. in each situation.