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- From: livesey@solntze.wpd.sgi.com (Jon Livesey)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism,talk.religion.misc
- Subject: Re: Why? (was Re: THE MIND OF THE BIBLE BELIEVER)
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:50:51 GMT
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- References: <1993Jan7.174800.9003@ra.royalroads.ca> <C0s96y.LMt@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <C12Lpw.s4A@austin.ibm.com> <1993Jan20.223704.29859@digi.lonestar.org>
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- In article <1993Jan20.223704.29859@digi.lonestar.org>, gpalo@digi.lonestar.org (Gerry Palo) writes:
- |>
- |>
- |> Another view is that religion has its origins in light and truth, but,
- |> the human bearers of it being human as they are, over the ages it becomes
- |> encrusted with corruptions and superstitions, and also becomes sclerotic
- |> and hardened, closing itself off to the new understanding and enlightenment
- |> required by the human soul as it grows and evolves.
-
- Yet another view is that we simply don't know an "origin" for religion.
- To get going at all, it must server some purpose for someone, and to
- persist it must strike a significant chord with a large number of people,
- but beyond that, we don't really have any idea if there is any truth
- behind it, let alone "light and truth". It may simply be something
- that some people get off on, like dervishes are supposed to have gotten
- off on whirling in a circle.
-
- |>
- |> The difference between true religion and Nazism is that with the former, even
- |> if its form has become as brittle and crumbled as a dead leaf, you can still
- |> detect traces of the once living form -- even it the fullness of its original
- |> intricacy and integrity cannot always be clearly discerned -- whereas the
- |> latter was constructed out of artificial, dead substances - lies - in the first
- |> place and was twisted and ugly from the beginning. The living plant that
- |> ages and dies always brings forth a new seed from which it can rise again
- |> in renewed freshness. The one that was dead to begin with must be reconstruc-
- |> ted again by force of lies, by those who serve the "father of lies".
-
- You've been listening to too many Inauguration speeches.
-
- jon.
-