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…
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.
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.