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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (171346)	8/14/2001 4:38:13 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Finally, we would seem to fulfill ourselves by acquiring knowledge, developing our tastes, and building our characters. In the world that we actually experience, there are persons seeking fulfillment, both as individuals and in relationships. There is beauty, and we can learn to perceive it more clearly. There is goodness, and we can aspire to becoming better as persons and societies. There is truth, and we can seek to understand something of the world. This world contrasts with the world of "matter in motion", where persons are merely automata, where beauty is solely in the eye of the beholder, and where goodness is a matter of choice, or grounded in evolutionary exigencies. The reason that most people, in most places, at most times, believe in God or the gods, is that it makes sense, based upon the human world, a world is altogether surer and better founded than the inhuman one speculated upon by scientism. The idea that there has to be more than matter in incidental configurations, that there is purpose and beauty in things, is the base line, elementary insight. Just as we have developed our sense of beauty and idea of goodness, we have developed our ideas of God. The monotheistic religions penetrated and conquered most paganisms. Hinduism was more resilient because it has a quasi- monotheistic theology, in the idea of Brahm as the aboriginal source of things. Buddhism has similarly developed an idea of the Dharma as guiding all things, similar to the Stoic idea of the Logos. The bottom line, then, is that in the world of human experience, acknowledgement of some sort of Deity makes sense....... (Finis)