Hi Mq - >> ... 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.
Trust me. That's what they say.<<
So it's trust "Mq this time". And trust, what he says they say. (Say what?)
You're talking apples with your usual fervour, and some of us are talking oranges. And some are talking peeled apples etc.
There's a series of books titled "Criminal history of catholic church". I read it as far as cca 400 AC, with Tertulian exlamining "You will win under this sign, o Caesar", etc etc. Should be quite a reading, with the conquering of the New world to follow 1000 years later etc.
But that is just one aspect. To make the argument overly simple, "what does that have in common with Mother Theresa" and the answer is, "nothing of importance to the subject of Mother Theresa". And vice versa.
If you see the CNBC sunday schools, boring on some verse in Isaiah, well, there's a danger of prophets taking over, telling everybody, what's behind it, how to interpret, what to make out of it. But we're all free people - until the moment we're not free anymore. So, we're talking freedom aka our own existence.
Of course, everybody flogs the horse, that's standing the closest. Does not take too much effort to shift the a*s somewhere away from the current point of view.
>>That's what they say.<< You're too gullible. Show some curiosity;
RegZ
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