The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #85405   Message #2611867
Posted By: Amos
15-Apr-09 - 02:50 PM
Thread Name: BS: Obit: The Republican Party
Subject: RE: BS: Obit: The Republican Party
Are there specific programs involving the OFBI to which you object? Or is it just the title which sets you off?

I sympathize with your distaste for many of the memes and symbols, icons, and plaster personae that are bandied about in the name of faith. But I would submit for reflection that faith without incarnations and symbols may just be something intrinsically very valuable and useful to any viewpoint embedded in the maze of space-time. The reason is that being locked into space-time tends to severely constrict the ability to know, so severely that it leaves natural responsibility desperate for some way to know enough to exercise itself.

From this perspective it is possible that "faith" may constitute a valuable baby in the midst of a lot of bathwater, one with whom it behooves us to treat kindly.

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