EV,
<To deny the inner voice which forever whispers its warnings, is to force a spiritual comma upon the conscience,>
I think of my 'inner voice' as being, among other things, an excellent
spiritual comma. However I do not require a Yahweh, Jesus, Allah
or other human mental construct to be the source of that voice.
And the priests who have told the societal 'Me' that such an external
source was required (as interpreted by them, of course) have
perpetrated and fomented some of the ugliest cruelties of man
on man that the world has seen. All in the name of one who they
tell me is All-seeing, All-knowing, All-loving and All-powerful.
Sorry Emile, while I'm not an admirer of the closed mind,
you won't make much of a dent in me with your chapter and verse
from old tomes which were transcribed from the verbal by men,
translated down through numerous languages by men, all the while
being interpreted for me by yet more---men.
Interesting as mythic and societal behavior lessons of another
age, but then so are Gilgamesh, the Koran, and other guide books.
Lee |
