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| | The Religion Report: 14 July 2004 - Humanism, the Wreck of Western Culture |
 | | John Carroll: Because it is the case, and I think this is just simply constitutive of what it is to be human, that we humans, probably unlike animals, need death to be more than just dying in a Darwinian sense, and like a dead fish, rotting and stinking on the beach. |
 | | John Carroll: Exactly, and Rembrandt shows this, it’s on the surface, it’s an intimate couple, the man’s got his hand gently on his wife’s breast, but if you actually look at their faces, there’s a discontent and a furtiveness in both their faces. |
 | | John Carroll: We don’t feel obligations to the future unless we have this contact with the past, and the contact with the past is not petty histories about who was the Mayor of Footscray, the contact with the past is these great mythic stories, but they’ve got to be part of our culture. |
| www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/8.30/relrpt/stories/s1153654.htm (3352 words) |
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