[MD] John's Reading of Absolute Idealism Confirmed by Bob

[Louise Pryor]

>
> Ron:
> Interestingly, I recently had a conversation with a long time freind who
> became
> born again just this past year, I had said that the belief in jesus as the
> christ
> really did'nt have any bearing on the matter, he got huffy and proclaimed
> that
> belief in jesus as the christ, was the whole central theme. He said if you
> don't
> believe that jesus lived,was the son of god, died and was resurrected then
> your
> not a christian. I maintained that that was superflouse to the message, I
> said
> that the ideas expressed held more value, whether or not jesus actually
> existed
> was rather beside the point.
> He could not wrap his head around the idea that When you adopt a Pragmatic
> theory of meaning,
> objectively held truths fall to the side.


I seem to be getting into a lot of conversations lately with this sort of
problem - people are so married to their own ideas about, or understanding
of, "God"  (whether they are for or against), that those ideas sort of
become "the god". If you question one of their ideas, you are a threat to
the whole structure that they have built! That goes for people who would say
that God is Quality, or Quality is God, or even Quality stands alone, having
nothing to do with god.

It's as foolish to blindly hold on to all your sacred, religious ideas and
theologies, as it to reject them out-of-hand. A Quality idea will stand up
to scrutiny, I don't need to defend it (can't, even). What I want, what I
have been trying to do in my life, is to peel apart the layers - to figure
out which ideas are dross and which are gold.

The Davinci Code made me think. What if Jesus fathered a child? How would
that alter my faith? How willing am I to even allow the question to be
asked? A faith built on a foundation of Quality, might shake a bit, but it
won't crumble.

Lu