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

To: cosmicforce who wrote (4464)	12/9/2000 2:03:54 PM
From: Charliss	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

For me, it is so different that it is difficult to believe that they describe the same set of phenomena...One of the frustrating things for me is that the personal interpretations of some really smart people of good will make sense of the work in toto I am with you here. However, one need not "throw out the baby with the bath water." Unless one really wants to, of course. And that would be ok....although not really objectively necessary. You are not comfortable with a psychotic God, and so you don't commit your intellect and time to the great work of arranging reality and making up a belief system that accommodates the psychosis by renaming it. However, we can yet retain the actual teachings of Jesus, if they speak to something within us. Remember, a lot of craziness can come from desperate human attempts to make odd things fit, to achieve consonance and integrity with dualities and opposites. Oddly, this craziness is an attempt to avoid going crazy. Those who like the teachings of the Buddha have had the same kinds of problems, decisions and choices to make, in separating the teachings from the belief systems and religious craziness that came to surround them. This seems to be the fate suffered by all great teachings. This fate is really a function of the ego. If the ego is formed when a person identifies with the belief system that is held, then it is understandable why one will so strenuously and publicly, sometimes even violently, defend, and even attempt to impose, that belief system. After all, it is one's identity that is at stake. It becomes a matter of to be or not to be. The defense of craziness becomes a matter of life and death. One must appreciate the fear inherent in this.