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Thread #152326 Message #3563072
Posted By: Donuel
01-Oct-13 - 02:06 AM
Thread Name: BS: Religion, which is the best one?
Subject: RE: BS: Religion, which is the best one?
Joe,
your education including four years in the seminary you say has certainly not constricted your thinking. In other words you did not grow narrow of mind but actually feel you have broadened an open mind because of that particular nurturing education.
What do you think of the idea that focusing the mind over time in a particular discipline or at least refining your thinking is still to the exclusion of something/anything contrary.
They say it isn't possible to hold two contrary thoughts in your mind at the same time.
Not meant as a trap question or a conundrum, I am just saying that you really can not know if you would have equated strident atheists and literal fundamentalists if not for your religious education.
Still for some of the very reasons you cite I consider myself a poetic or spiritual atheist and not a linear one size fits all strident person.
It has been said that having experienced a spectrum of religions or meaningful myths and aphorisms the experience of epiphany would be more dilute than if one had experienced and focused on only one religion. I would naturally disagree. But then again, how could I really know having only experienced only one side of the "equation".
Perhaps the undercurrent of my remarks relates to an incident where you did react in a very linear fashion towards me. No offense was taken, since I knew it was a misunderstanding, besides I can see how separating my humorous remarks from hard rhetoric can be a near impossible task. Since the joke is already in my head by the time the words hits the page, I might mistakenly only write down the punch line.
I proof read now and am more attentive to not bruising any kind souls even by accident, but still they walk right into the road without looking and BAM they get rear ended by a metaphor d
Like not answering the rhetorical question, wasn't it refreshing that no one actually said that Christianity is the best religion hands down... like TV evangelists would?
It is interesting that no one was willing to be that fundamentalist.