[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

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At 04:14 PM 1/20/2007, you wrote:

>[Mark]
>(Note: The  Christian God has been reified as extra-worldly has it not, and
>the South  American emphasis on the Virgin Mary rather than Jesus also points
>to a  Dynamic 'other-world' view of God.)

Greetings,

When I was in  Spain, I was told it was a country that worshiped the 
goddess via  Mary.  BUT, I said she was an incomplete woman: sugar and 
spice, and  everything nice.  A real Goddess (archetype) would be a 
complete woman  with a full range of attributes, not an insipid 
creature designed and  created by a bunch of men wearing dresses.

m

Hi Marsha,
The situation is a little different in South America because the African  
slaves hid their own religion beneath Spanish Catholicism. The virgin becomes a  
Saint of Saints with a full set of attributes i should have thought.
Also, each saint hides an African based rhythm, and rhythm is central to  
South American culture; it is how people define themselves as individuals and as  
a people.
The people become the saints when they submit to the rhythm and allow  
themselves to be taken over - your identity belongs to that rhythm by which you  are 
most easily transported.
Note: Not the other way around! You belong to the rhythm - the rhythm has  
you.
I think the moq would tweak this and suggest this process to be a matter of  
DQ influencing sq patterns and not the result of saints from 'elsewhere' 
getting  in on the act.
Love,
Mark