The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #108205   Message #2255904
Posted By: Amos
07-Feb-08 - 10:06 AM
Thread Name: God still with me 2008
Subject: RE: God still with me 2008
Slag:

God bless you for your devoutness and your transcendant experiences.

The point where your te4stimony becomes condescending is very distinct, and it is the point in your rhetoric where you shift from your own uplifting to referring to the substance of that experience as though it were universal, and binding on others.

If you had gone on an acid trip and discovered the PErfect Truth that all human hearts are flowers, say blue ones, and tha this insight was the key to the universe, no-one here (I think) would get mad at you for saying what you had perceived. But when you began to cite Universal FLower Law as the guidelines that others should follwo, and began writing the Holy Book of Heart Flowers as dictated by the Infinite Pansy, why you'd begin to step across the boundary into others' universes. You'd be evaluating for others.

The fact that you believe your God is universal does not really justify using language in dialogue which directly or indirectly requires others to adjust their views to yours; but when you inject terms which by their very definition imply global claims, mandated by divinity, this is what you are doing.

Your relationship with God is your business, pal. But I think it is ill-advised to imply that it is in some way superior (as a world view)or binidng on others. And like it or not, that is what your language seems to do even if you do not think it does. At least, that's my take on it.

I wish you all the luck in the world developing your own relationship with Jesus and God. I would request, though, that when you come out here to the commons, that you leave that vocabulary at your own house.

A