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Thread #132816   Message #3011105
Posted By: Amos
19-Oct-10 - 07:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Subject: RE: BS: The 'moral' Atheist?
Well, John, I would certainly never expect you to accept any such malarkey.

However, the fact that one sect or cult makes a bunch of indigestible assertions about its icon does not eliminate the entire concept of godhead, by which I mean a sense of the spiritual extended to infinite transdimensionality, or something of that order. As far as I am concerned any claim for icongraphy of the sort you describe is just variations on a theme of idolatry, although it is understandable that some people will be uncomfortable if they can't have some sort of symbols to wrap their brains around.

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