Religion like everything else is developmental. I tire of people who carry around a concept of God and religion that they learned as children -- and assume that is what it is ultimately all about. There is a kind of acute intellectual Sloth here -that parades as condescending brilliance all the while looking like the universal arrogance …
Religion like everything else is developmental. I tire of people who carry around a concept of God and religion that they learned as children -- and assume that is what it is ultimately all about. There is a kind of acute intellectual Sloth here -that parades as condescending brilliance all the while looking like the universal arrogance of adolescent boys returning home after their first year in college. Assume they know everything but ultimately know almost nothing. There is more in heaven and earth Horatio ---- than what your limited experience has thus far revealed. Or, as one of my favorite rabbis stated, "the God you don't believe in, doesn't exist"................
I somehow missed all but the last couple of posts in this "thread" until just now. I am unable to process it all, too much of an "intellectual sloth" to go to all that trouble. What seems to be animating the discussion is a difference between religion and philosophy and a confusion between religion and spirituality, not to mention ritual and ordinary mythology. The common difficulty seems to be that formal religion relies on an authority and becomes an authoritarian system which brooks no dissent. In all cases, we create the deity we worship. That is nonsense or a tautology or some such insanity. Who has time for all of that? We have problems to solve and mysteries to unearth. Science and reason are more my cup of tea, or what was it that Socrates drank, hemlock juice. I am a descendant of Welsh people btw. Calhouns.
Religion like everything else is developmental. I tire of people who carry around a concept of God and religion that they learned as children -- and assume that is what it is ultimately all about. There is a kind of acute intellectual Sloth here -that parades as condescending brilliance all the while looking like the universal arrogance of adolescent boys returning home after their first year in college. Assume they know everything but ultimately know almost nothing. There is more in heaven and earth Horatio ---- than what your limited experience has thus far revealed. Or, as one of my favorite rabbis stated, "the God you don't believe in, doesn't exist"................
I somehow missed all but the last couple of posts in this "thread" until just now. I am unable to process it all, too much of an "intellectual sloth" to go to all that trouble. What seems to be animating the discussion is a difference between religion and philosophy and a confusion between religion and spirituality, not to mention ritual and ordinary mythology. The common difficulty seems to be that formal religion relies on an authority and becomes an authoritarian system which brooks no dissent. In all cases, we create the deity we worship. That is nonsense or a tautology or some such insanity. Who has time for all of that? We have problems to solve and mysteries to unearth. Science and reason are more my cup of tea, or what was it that Socrates drank, hemlock juice. I am a descendant of Welsh people btw. Calhouns.