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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (77928)10/20/2003 5:22:00 PM
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I'm not sure that the Unitarians or the Quakers have found the need to persue that venue, nor would we recognize them or that vital movement if they did. And it would have them cease to exist as themselves and their un-miraculous origins .

...and in any case the pope will do as he and the council behind him wishes . The surprising thing is not that they canonize one saint , but that they canonize all too few...since we live in an age of miracles and cures beyond any imagining of only from one century ago. So much progress and so few saints , and that is what is surprising to me . Something is awry in this , or perhaps not, for i see many more saints in this world (and the next) than the
pope & co apparently are willing to admit to. In art , in literature, science and in philosophy etc.

We should all be aspiring to be saints , and in many brief instances we all do have that experience with (or without) the canonization. It is quite apparent that there can be shown the possibility of a universal morality without the necessity of God or his chosen writings ....and contrary to what the fundamentalists would have us believe, perhaps what our society really needs is not more religion but a richer notion of the nature of morality.

Found through free inquiry and natural inspiration and even our innate curiosity & the muse...has worked before many times through the ages ...or in spite of the ages when free men of temperance & reflection had found their voices...and their callings .

Edit : Free women too...

;-)
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