[MD] Dawkins a Materialist (is watching?)

[ARLO J BENSINGER JR]

[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.

[Arlo]
I think if you review the archives you will find I have been consistent is
separating mysticism from theism. My criticism of Christians, for example, has
always been in their attempts to literalize their dogma into social law. I have
never once said that Christianity, as a mythology, is incapable of bringing
people mystical awareness. And I have been fully vocal on bringing back the Zen
into the MOQ, when even the so-called "theists" object because it isn't
"Judeo-Christian". I am not an atheist, despite being continually accused of
it. I have said time and time again I find the pagan and indigenous myths to be
inspiring and insightful. I have said that one cannot understand the MOQ
without first knowing what Quality is, as it was told in ZMM, with its Buddhist
core. 

So don't accuse me of slamming "Christians", or confusing religion with
dogmatism. Read what I write before you make such accusations.

Rant on.

And you know what, I'm getting pretty tired of having to candy-coat and purrr
lest I offend "Christians" or be labeled as "demeaning". I have always walked
one walk, and I will continue to walk it. That which you do that you find as
valuable metaphor and sign-post to DQ, the Godhead, the Buddha, the Tao or
whatever you call it gets my blessing. But try to tell me that YOUR God is the
right God, and MY God is the wrong God, and I should live my life according to
what YOUR God says, and I will condemn it every time. I no more want a Taliban
to tell me I have to live according to Islamic law than I want a Christian
Coalition telling me I have to live by Judeo-Christian law.

And beyond that, I am tired of the total and absolute hypocrisy of the
self-professed "Christians" in this country that ignore 8/10 of the religion
while claiming the remaining 2/10 that gives them power over others is
unassailable Truth. You want Christian law. Fine. Let's go through the Bible
step-by-step and make it all law. No divorce. No business on Sunday. No touchy
your wifey when she is unclean. Outlaw coveting. Outlaw Universal health care.
Community housing. Free food distribution. Outlaw wealth. And on and on... No,
these hypocrits don't want any of that. They want the one or two sentences that
give them power to claim "superior morality" by condemning others who aren't
like them. Aside from that, its all phoney lip service and pandering.

You find me the people who live like Jesus, and I'll show you a group of
Marxists who are more concerned with health, hunger and shelter than the vapid
Capistocrats who claim to be Christians. You want to get people to "walk the
walk", then I'd suggest starting with the Christians, or those who pander to
"Judeo-Christian" ethics. 

Rant off.