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The urban Jane Goodall
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It's not necessarily Islam, as much as Islam is poster child for fundamentalism.
The instant you open your mind to the idea that an invisible man exists, made the world, and can talk to you, you set yourself up for an unknown number of possibilities for delusions, excuses, and ignorance.
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It's not believing the invisible man exists, it's believing He tells other people what you should do.
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not meaning to offend any religion but
I agree that when you start thinking that "GOD" tells you what to do and what every one else should do or belive in what you do else they are in some way wrong or not in touch with "GOD" only hurts your actual spirtitual awareness I belive I have a very good relationship "GOD" if in "GOD" you mean the spirtatual energy that connects us all to the universe but do I belive in Zeus (I find if I use an out-dated god it softens the blow) no but that doesn't mean I have an awareness or understanding of "GOD" Although the day "GOD" starts telling me what to do I'm so done with him he gets a 1 way ticket to Dumpsville Last edited by Ether42; 01-14-2006 at 12:58 PM. |
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I agree, but I think a far greater proportion would hear the "right" thing, when tempered by their conscience and logic, than when they just listen to a clergy and just accepting what they hear.
Of course in terms of this thread, one very big fly in the ointment is tradition. Hundreds, sometimes thousands of years, of doing what is "wrong" in our view. I guess they feel the same about us. ![]()
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Big difference though, we're right.
Just ask Bush, God said so.
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Well, I will say that our culture is more "right" in its treatment of women, and I knew that before W. ever got to be president and announce the word of god to the rest of us.
Up to 300 or so years ago, Western culture deemed it "right" to label some people (often women) witches and burn them at the stake. A mere 60 or so years ago, a significant portion of the German people either considered it "right" (or turned their heads the other way) to send Jews off to the crematorium. As an aside: My parents met and married in Germany several years after WWII. I came across their marriage licence while going through some old papers the other day. I was interested to note that even 6 years after the war had ended and Germany was still pretty much occupied by the US, the German civil form for a marriage licence had remained unchanged since 1937. There was a space where the faith of each person had to be typed in, so it reads: Marichiko's Dad - Evangelical; Marichiko's Mom - Catholic A small reminder of a time when a person's faith was, indeed, a matter of life or death. I'd love to know what my Dad said to the German official who issued that document. He must have been having fun with the guy, because my Dad was ANYTHING but an "Evangelical" Christian! But I digress. The point I was trying to make is that we often translate the word of the society which prevails at the time into the word of God. There IS a difference, but many people, ESPECIALLY fundamentalists, don't pick up on this minor point. It must annoy God no end. |
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Ah ha, that explains it. You're half Evangelical.
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