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SweetFreedom Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
Tend to be monolithic?
Does "tend to be monolithic" mean "tend to rule the whole world/tend to make everyone in the world to be its member"?
Background info:
Harris's basic message is that the time has come to freely question the idea of religious http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SamHarris(author)#cite_note-eof-25p. 13–15 Harris consistently criticizes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam, Christianity, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism[citation needed] which he says tend to be monolithic and ready to harm others only for their religion. He feels that the survival of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization is in danger because of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo against questioning religious beliefs, and that this taboo impedes progress toward more enlightened approaches to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality and ethics.
Background info:
Harris's basic message is that the time has come to freely question the idea of religious http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faith.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SamHarris(author)#cite_note-eof-25p. 13–15 Harris consistently criticizes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam, Christianity, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism[citation needed] which he says tend to be monolithic and ready to harm others only for their religion. He feels that the survival of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization is in danger because of a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taboo against questioning religious beliefs, and that this taboo impedes progress toward more enlightened approaches to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirituality and ethics.
Top answer
No. Literally, a monolith is a huge block of stone that stands apart. The idea here is that Christianity and Judaism are each big and not connected with any other religions.
- No.
- Literally, a monolith is a huge block of stone that stands apart.
- The idea here is that Christianity and Judaism are each big and not connected with any other religions.
- Clive
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No.
Literally, a monolith is a huge block of stone that stands apart.
The idea here is that Christianity and Judaism are each big and not connected with any other religions.
Clive
Literally, a monolith is a huge block of stone that stands apart.
The idea here is that Christianity and Judaism are each big and not connected with any other religions.
Clive
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SweetFreedommonolithicWhat happened? Did you lose your dictionary?
monolithic:
a : constituting a massive undifferentiated and often rigid whole <a monolithic society>
b : exhibiting or characterized by often rigidly fixed uniformity <monolithic party unity>
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SweetFreedomtend to make everyone in the world to be its member"?No. The word for that is proselytizing.
CJ
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