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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dayuhan who wrote (2554)	10/25/2000 10:35:23 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 28931

The "Christ-figure of our mythology" and the historical Christ are not the same, you know. The translation of the Greek gospel by Richard Lattimore is very plain, and easy to read. I think it's as important to read as it is to read Aristotle, Plato, Plutarch, and so on. I would add the Bhaghavid Gita and the Upanishads, Lao Tzu, Confucius, the Diamond Sutra, and I just got interested in Averroes, an Islamic philosopher who lived in Moorish Spain. To me, religion is a type of philosophy, and I think everyone has an ethos of some type. I don't know what type of experiences you had with religion. I was not forced to believe anything, at least by my parents, and the nuns and priests at the schools I attended did not insist that I believe, either. At one point after my father married his second wife he insisted, at her behest, that we go to church, but the Unitarian Fellowship was good enough. But I gather from some of the heated comments I've received on this board and others, that their experiences with religious believers were not so gentle. I would never condemn a religion because some of its adherents were misguided. I think Islam has some very interesting ideas about the interrelationship between man and man here on earth, for example. Islamic culture during the middle ages was one of the flowers of the world, but we never study it due to prejudice. Much of what we know today about mathematics, medicine, astronomy, chemistry, cartography, on and on, was developed in the Islamic world.