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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (23911)10/6/2002 1:45:18 AM
From: LLCF  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
< My point, to heavily belabour the point, which seems difficult for people to grasp, is that mysticism and religion involve trusting somebody else to do the observing and thinking for you and accepting that your own puny brain and observational powers are not able to do the seeing and figuring out.>

That depends who you are... religious teachings can be read like any other teaching. You take it for what you get out of it.

You're confusing science with 'life'. Of course science is fantastic, in fact science will be tremendously helpful in fact instrumental in rooting out 'false religion'.

BUT, religion is the realm of 'personal belief'... science hasn't touched it yet... maybe someday. But until then, people take it upon themselves [and religion, or not] to build themselves a moral structure or code. Metephores for life. Sure politics is part, but laws also are mostly based on religion. In fact the appauling reaction you get from most people about feeding virgins to volcanoes comes from religious backgrounds.

In short, you are terribly confused on the whole issue IMO:

"The cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblest driving force behind scientific research."- Albert Einstein

It's OK, that's how I was taught too... but I've boned up on things.

DAK
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