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Originally Posted by craig1120
Let’s agree that one of us is too sloppy, over compensating, and fortifying order in an unwise way.
Obviously everyone is free to practice their chosen religion, and free to practice uninsulted over it. My intent is not to insult. It's to try to get some kind of comment out of any given true believer that reflects some meta awareness of what they are doing. That maybe it is a driven spiel coming from forces within latching onto a cultural meme instead of a pipeline from/to some almighty being.
Just finishing a great book. Three of my favorite religious writers are de Chardin, Evelyn Underhill, and this guy, Paul Tillich. The book is "The Courage to Be." It's a profound treatise on what people are doing with religion, what internal purposes it serves, and how it relates existentially to being. He cites atheism and existentialism as the proper rebellions to what he calls "theological theism," that being this preposterous idea something like "I have intimate knowledge and revelations from the one and only true god, who is supernatural."
Religion, as commonly practiced, and as I once adopted it, is about a lot of things. But critical to it is existential anxiety and its redress via the perfect omniscient, omnipresent god who loves me, saves me, and gives me eternal life. No doubt that sounds like a pretty good deal. It also sounds remarkably like a myth and a fairy tale.
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