Paglia thoughts on religion and politics as religion, etc

zork · Jul 29, 2015

I thought this was an interesting paragraph as I started to skim the recent article linked by Drudge of the Salon interview with Camille Paglia:

I’m speaking here as an atheist. I don’t believe there is a God, but I respect every religion deeply. All the great world religions contain a complex system of beliefs regarding the nature of the universe and human life that is far more profound than anything that liberalism has produced. We have a whole generation of young people who are clinging to politics and to politicized visions of sexuality for their belief system. They see nothing but politics, but politics is tiny. Politics applies only to society. There is a huge metaphysical realm out there that involves the eternal principles of life and death. The great tragic texts, including the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles, no longer have the central status they once had in education, because we have steadily moved away from the heritage of western civilization.
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http://www.salon.com/2015/07/29/cam..._very_open_minded_but_that’s_simply_not_true/

What do you think? Is that just ******** or do you see some truth in that no matter what you believe? How do politics fit into your belief system and has it changed over the past 5, 10, or longer, years?

zork · Jul 29, 2015

She goes on to discuss an interesting point on the Planned Parenthood issues of the day and the disparate coverage it has received:

Now let me give you a recent example of the persisting insularity of liberal thought in the media. When the first secret Planned Parenthood video was released in mid-July, anyone who looks only at liberal media was kept totally in the dark about it, even after the second video was released. But the videos were being run nonstop all over conservative talk shows on radio and television. It was a huge and disturbing story, but there was total silence in the liberal media. That kind of censorship was shockingly unprofessional. The liberal major media were trying to bury the story by ignoring it. Now I am a former member of Planned Parenthood and a strong supporter of unconstrained reproductive rights. But I was horrified and disgusted by those videos and immediately felt there were serious breaches of medical ethics in the conduct of Planned Parenthood officials. But here’s my point: it is everyone’s obligation, whatever your political views, to look at both liberal and conservative news sources every single day. You need a full range of viewpoints to understand what is going on in the world.
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Why would it get such different coverage from the objective press?

Just as an FYI:
https://www.google.com/#q=nyt+planned+parenthood+selling

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