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To: PROLIFE who wrote (33291)	12/8/2001 4:26:07 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

as usual...you have totally misunderstood...but keep seeking, you may find. " Seek and you shall find " Something a child might say in a spontaneous moment ? Or a Diety ? Which? ;-) What makes it complicated , is the blindness men turn upon each other ...the fear and hate they often teach their children. Tolerance and understanding is dawning in the New Age ... an idea who's time has come , for Christian, Jew and Hindu, Moslem alike . " Nothing so powerful as an idea who's time is coming "... The "Christ" in Jefferson saw this , and so did the "Christ" in Jesus . humble regards mars

To: PROLIFE who wrote (33291)	12/8/2001 5:29:42 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 39621

In my seeking PL, I have found The highest principles for our aspirations and judgements are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition. It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations. If one were to take that goal out of out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. ... it is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any otherway. But intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man ...these fundamentals are inherently self-evident and potentially within the comprehension of the child. Yet if a man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death. The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. Yet on an almost child~like mystical plane , we participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world with deepest reverence within our own being . This is the "true soul" of all religion , which is the lessons and learning that leads to further deep compassion within ourselves , for life all other livng things . To know ourselves as we truely are, and to see the truth and the truth set us free. The idea of only their being one life followed by either eternal hell or heaven is rather limited , in an infinite Universe of space and time. It would be in man's best interest to pursue that in life which offers balance & compassion . Something Buddha illustrated and sent out his disciples to teach the world so long ago...but first to realize it for themselves. And he taught for over 50yrs .True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness ...and on this most all of them agree. But religion of the future will be a universal religion. A religion based on experience and not just upon the dogmatic ... So with wonderment of a child Einstein once beautifully stated: The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenatrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men. just some "searching " thoughts....