Comments on: Excerpt from “Between Jesus and the Market” http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2005/05/12/excerpt-from-between-jesus-and-the-market/ Making the Connections Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:52:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Stan http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2005/05/12/excerpt-from-between-jesus-and-the-market/#comment-1035 Stan Sun, 22 May 2005 17:12:21 +0000 /?p=97#comment-1035 Here's a link to Cassell's article on the religous right's newfound political clout. http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel05212005.html Here’s a link to Cassell’s article on the religous right’s newfound political clout.

http://www.counterpunch.org/cassel05212005.html

]]> By: Glenn Goldman http://www.feralscholar.org/blog/index.php/2005/05/12/excerpt-from-between-jesus-and-the-market/#comment-892 Glenn Goldman Fri, 13 May 2005 16:10:20 +0000 /?p=97#comment-892 < <Children are raised to feel and experience their own sensuality, their own bodies, in very particular ways>> I don't know where she ends up going with this, but I believe that the negative manifestations of this process (i.e. the early and relentless messages that certain biological functions, particularly around pleasure and eroticism, are bad) are most responsible for anchoring patriarchal authoritarian ideology into the individual. Thanks for posting this. This issue of how the right-wing exploits religion is one of the most important issues that has faced us for over 30 years. I have observed the rise of Pat Robertson's empire with a mixture of utter contempt, fear and fascination. Yet the official left has been able to do nothing but snort and ridicule and spout dogmas about opiates and masses. Unless we understand that there is such thing as healthy spirituality, that a belief in the Divine and Sacred is not necessarily irrational or infantile, and that as organizers we need to invite healthy and liberated forms of spirituality into our movement, we will continue to behave as elitist, oh-so-superior intellectual snobs who just don't have a clue. < > I don’t know where she ends up going with this, but I believe that the negative manifestations of this process (i.e. the early and relentless messages that certain biological functions, particularly around pleasure and eroticism, are bad) are most responsible for anchoring patriarchal authoritarian ideology into the individual.

Thanks for posting this. This issue of how the right-wing exploits religion is one of the most important issues that has faced us for over 30 years. I have observed the rise of Pat Robertson’s empire with a mixture of utter contempt, fear and fascination. Yet the official left has been able to do nothing but snort and ridicule and spout dogmas about opiates and masses. Unless we understand that there is such thing as healthy spirituality, that a belief in the Divine and Sacred is not necessarily irrational or infantile, and that as organizers we need to invite healthy and liberated forms of spirituality into our movement, we will continue to behave as elitist, oh-so-superior intellectual snobs who just don’t have a clue.

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