Re: And I have an even further gripe -- that all religions are, in fact, thieves in that each one claims to be the exclusive representative of God or the Almighty when, in actual fact, God, or what people believe is God, is within every one of us and accessible in everyone's imagination. If people want to believe in a "Higher Being" a "Creator", call it what you will, that "Being" is present universally and it is not necessary for anyone to have to accept all the religious baggage and clap-trap in order to find or to worship "Him".
True as far as monotheisms are concerned. As I once put it, monotheism is to religion what totalitarianism is to politics --a nefarious, intolerant frame of reference. Polytheism is a much wiser approach to deal with religious matters:
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As far as I'm concerned, polytheism should not be dismissed as a fanciful, bygone construct, an intellectual plaything to skirt monotheism's tenets.... Polytheism best describes our current state of affairs: several gods --(the Christian) God, Allah, Yaweh,...--- are vying against each other for dominion over mankind, pitting their respective flocks against each other....
Re: BTW, those seem like excellent books which you recommended -- the kind of stuff we talk about all the time.
Indeed. Both are on my shopping list. |
