[MD] New Model Army, Mystic(DQ) Experience, and Religion (SQ) as Power

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

With my morning coffee this morning, I found a short quote from the former
Republican Senator and Episcopalian Priest John Danforth that sums up what I
was trying to say last night (from his upcoming book "Faith & Politics".

"Real faith is about searching for answers, not presuming to know them."

In this one sentence is the split between considering metaphor as a path to
understand something about our existence, and the literalization that
obliterates the metaphor in favor of "my God is the only God" and subservience
to a social power structure. In this one sentence one can also see the DQ/SQ
split, as "searching for answers" is active and dynamic, while "presuming to
know them" is not only static, but subsitutes egoism for spirituality.

And it is there that the problems begin.