[MD] The End of Faith

[Khaled Alkotob]

[Ron] earlier
> > Atheism was always a hot topic especially for my father, I guess  
>> > because He experienced combat in Vietnam, He said once that there
are no  

> > atheists In a fire fight. He also once said to me that to deny a
great  
> > spirit is to deny any connection to life and reality. All things are
connected he said
> > This connectedness is the great. All have a relationship with the  
universe.
> > What sense does it make to deny your relationship with all things?
> > He said the idea that we are separate from the universe was called 
> > "the White mans sickness" by the natives.


[Steve]
>Your dad sounds like an atheist to me. Yet he does want to be  
> identified as one and even rails against atheism.

Khaled
Ron's dad was trying to explain to him the difference between the letter
of Religion and the Spirit of Religion.

See, it's like calculus. Many people can do simple math, but few can
understand derivatives. 
Religion line-by-line, is a given basic. Then there are those who can
depart the text and see the Truth.

See, you say 5+5=10, I say 8+2=10, he says 300-290=10. The irony is none
of us see that it's the "10" we are aiming for.


Peace

Khaled