[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[David M]

Arlo, and any other guilty parties

Well let's walk the walk and stop confusing
religion with dogmatism (despite historical
association) and different values for backwardness.

David M

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ARLO J BENSINGER JR" <ajb102 at psu.edu>
To: <moq_discuss at moqtalk.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 6:12 PM
Subject: Re: [MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)


> [David M]
> Would it be possible for someone to be as educated as you, as intelligent 
> as
> you, as lefty as you (and me) and still be a Christian?
>
> [Arlo]
> Sure. I think, however, this hinges on whether or not one accepts the 
> static
> patterns as "sign-posts", or analogies, or whether or not one believes 
> "this is
> literal Truth". Christian mystic experience, notably in the Gnostic 
> tradition,
> has been as great a boon to some as Zen and Native American mysticism. 
> Like
> Art, mystic experience can open one's "eyes and heart" to Quality, or the
> Buddha, or the Tao. The danger is those who wield the static patterns as a
> weapon. Sadly, there are few of the former and armies of the latter.
>
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