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It may be helpful to consider the possible reasons
for some religious leaders failures to articulate the
logic or reasons for many of the prohibitions,
prescriptions and commandments which they take so
seriously. For many religious leaders it seem enough that
a text containing a commandment can be found in the
collected books of an ancient religious library which was
collected over a period of many centuries. A few
questions would seem in order.
1. In practice no one take all injunctions found in
that collected library are taken equally seriously. What
criteria is the basis for judging some injunctions to be
more important than others --- as indicated by actual
practice and admonitions? Some injunctions are almost
totally ignored. Other injunctions are the focus of much
disputation. Why?
2. Some of the injunctions which are found in the
collected library could be shown to make good common
sense, but rarely do religious leaders articulate the
reasons that they make good sense. Why not do so? Is it
because others of the injunctions found in the texts do
not make sense in new contexts, and it is inconvenient to
deal with disparities between ancient contexts and modern
contexts?
3. Some injunctions empower religious leaders who
support the injunctions. In what way can such injunctions
be defended without bias? By whom?
4. Rarely are human experiences pointed to as having
any relevance to showing that religious injunctions make
sense. Why are there so few references to human
experiences which could well be used to show that certain
of the injunctions make a lot of sense? Is it because
there are some highly favored injunctions which cannot be
shown to make sense in terms of common human experiences;
and so they must be accepted "on authority" which is not
related to common human experiences? To defend some
injunctions in terms of human experiences would undermine
the reputations of favored injunctions which can only be
accepted "on authority". On whose authority? To whose
advantage? At whose disadvantage?
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