Religion NOT a Ding an sich.
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What I mean to say is that religion cannot be approached as a thing
in itself, especially not a thing in itself for those who come
looking for it. it is rather the object of certain practices to
which it is accessible–accessible to each in its own way. Of course
these practices ( I won’t say “religious practices” because that is a
misnomer. Rather, they are practices in and through which the
phenomenon of religion shows itself) relate to one another.
So one can think religion, teach religion, observe religion,
deconstruct religion etc. Religion is all these ways of being
accessible. My particular favorite is thinking religion. After much
thought I have learned that religion must be thought as a possibility
of existence–which also includes its impossibility.
On this other list, there was this guy who would come up with riffs
like the above, coming out of nowhere. I didn’t like him. I thought
he was pompous–presumptuous, to be philosophizing in front of us
that way.
Allen (covering all bases)
