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

To: haqihana who wrote (182218)	9/15/2001 11:54:05 PM
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To me it seems that you are massaging the definition of 'religious,' and that those who feel deep religious fervor, and pray to God, and believe in an afterlife, and identify themselves as members of that religion, and spend hours reading from a holy book, and find the meaning of their lives in it, and find the meaningfulness of their lives informed by it, and would give their lives for their God, are by normal definitions 'religious' people. You can say they are religious people who violate some of the tenets of their religion because they misunderstand or misread their holy writings. Christians differ, too, in how they interpret and live by the Bible. There are also many people who call themselves, and feel, deeply religious, but feel no need whatever to affiliate with any formal religion. They pray, they may meditate, and God is present daily to them, they feel, in their lives, and guides and comforts them, and sends angels to watch over them. Would your position be that unless a person chooses a certain formal religion and sticks by the mainline interpretation of its scriptures, that person is, whatever he feels in his or her heart and mind and soul about the very real presence of God in his life, that person is not religious? I think it's dubious for outsiders to declare that the religious beliefs of others have to be called something else, but go ahead, haqi, you can if you want. Would you call the extremist mullahs who have memorized the Koran secular? Atheist? What, if not religious?