The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #107666   Message #2239041
Posted By: Joe Offer
18-Jan-08 - 04:13 AM
Thread Name: Who Would Jesus Deport?
Subject: RE: Who Would Jesus Deport?
Maybe it would be an idea to distinguish between "philosophy" and "ideology." If a person has a philosophy, the implication seems to be that it is some amount of thought and consideration involved in adopting this way of thinking, even though much of it may not be original thinking. To me, the term "ideology" implies more of a blind acceptance of a code that is completely from an outside source.
Some religious people are philosophical, and some are ideological - same goes for non-religious people.

In general, ideological people scare me - the philosophical ones don't.

-Joe-