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To: Father Terrence who wrote (77349)	4/10/2000 11:52:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Many scientists have been religious......

To: Father Terrence who wrote (77349)	4/11/2000 9:16:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

In addition, all those who live by mystical faith are parasites. They drain off the resources and the energies of those that are rational. Terry, this is one of the silliest things that you have said in a long time! In what way does a mystic contemplative drain off resources and energy from you? One of the mandates of the Benedictine order, for example, is that each house be self-supporting so you can't even claim that they are living on charity's supporting their mystics. Today's mystics are no different than the ancient Hebrews sitting around their campsites spinning tails of prophets, Jonah, the Garden of Eden, etc. while cowering at the wrath of god every time a surprise thunderstorm arrived or comet appeared in the heavens. Nonsense! Ignorance and superstition do not equate to mysticism. Today's scientists and technologists and engineers have moved the world. And many of them, particularly in physics and theoretical mathematics, find themselves becoming more, not less, comfortable with the notion that there may be some sort of a God. There is no necessary dichotomy between science and faith. There are silly constructs that would posit such a dichotomy, however. The worth of each world-view is obvious. Mystics want to suppress knowledge; Rationalists want to expand knowledge. Please do not confuse mysticism with radical religiosity. They are not at all the same. Equating them is sloppy.