Originally posted by FMF
If you disagree that the management of knowledge creates power for some and disadvantage or even danger for others then you can simply say so.
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I agree in some instances and in some instances I don't.
When I told a toddler to stay away from the stove because they could accidentally be burnt, i wasn't trying to exercise tyrannical power over them.
The warning of
Genesis 3 reads to me as a warning out of love.
The serpent questioning saying
"Yea, hath God said ... " suggesting that God was withholding some good fortune FROM man was the enemy of God and of man's ploy to put humans at a disadvantage.
But evidence is not persuasion. No doubt, you would regard it differently.
I believe it is an uncontroversial observation about the history of power and the human condition.
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It is somewhat of a self defeating philosophy. You are managing a certain kind of knowledge and so could be accused of seeking power over those to whom you wish to distribute your knowledge.
Why isn't your management of your knowledge here a continuation of "the history of power" ?
It's not as if I am claiming that humans who train themselves to think certain things can thus become immortal and that they have heard instructions to that end from "God".
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I can't say "He took the words right out of my mouth" here, about your little critique of New Testament salvation.
I think you simply want to wield as a weapon some assumed knowledge about history and Judeo / Christian influenced civilization to gain some power and render some disadvantage to a few other people you disagree with.