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Posted by Steve on 2/4/2009, 11:45 am, in reply to "Re: fear God? same shit & the baby underneath the superstition"
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: From the internet--
: "There seem to be two schools of
: thought regarding all the "fear
: God" passages. One – that you should
: be afraid of the Holy One- trembling,
: shaking in your boots kind of fear. The
: other, that you should stand in awe of
: Him."
:
: I think we can do away with the
: "should" part.
:
: But these Christians do seem to be striving
: for an underlying empirically available
: spiritual precept that goes like this: When
: you are truly awed by the universe, you
: don't worry about anything. You don't give
: any credence to make-believe fears.
: "God" can be either make-believe
: supernatural, or can represent a felt awe at
: natural experience.
:
: Sometimes it is useful to look at underlying
: tendencies in religion, rather than throw
: out the baby with the superstitious
: bathwater.
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"Sometimes it is useful to look at underlying tendencies in religion, rather than throw out the baby with the superstitious bathwater."
I agree that the baby is worth preserving, rat.
My problem with the professional atheists is that they tend to focus on the God Concept rather than on the power and potential of institutional religion to wreak havoc in the world. I would spend my pennies arguing not against the existence of God, but for the need of society to totally insulate itself from privately-held religious and spiritual beliefs.
To be honest, I'm somewhat concerned when two or more dao-focused people come together to talk shop, as we do here and on other forums.
Perhaps josef's prayers will be answered and my typing hand will be struck with a debilitating palsy.
The world would be better off, surely.
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