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

To: Grandk who wrote (11365)	2/28/2002 8:30:19 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 28931

Unfortunatley, it appears as if you have succumbed to the great lie which denies the deity of Christ. Christ living His life through the individual represents a piece of the body. Every individual is a piece forming the whole which is the church. You have just described the essence of Buddhism , and truth always lives on doesn't it ? I have the fondest and highest hopes for Christianity in the 21rst century , that maybe just perhaps they might learn something from their Buddhist brothers and sisters. but I am sorry that apology by CS Lewis seems rather dated and posturing ...it's arguments weakly compelling, patronizing and his passion rather feeble. I used to have more respect for him , but as I have grown CS Lewis has lost his appeal for me and seems so limited now looking back . I read most of his works at 13 & 14. In any case I would go with Einstein's appraisal and thoughts over Lewis's. He was less biased. And why always the vieled threat behind the defense of faith ? The world needs less posturing passions , and more sincere -->compassion. This is the message of Buddha. That is the truth ,essence & the difference .

To: Grandk who wrote (11365)	2/28/2002 9:06:16 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

The Challenge There was a time when vital Christian faith and a passionate love for learning and the arts were viewed as eminently compatible. The names Bach and Mendelssohn, Dante and Dostoevski, Newton and Pascal, Rembrandt and El Greco are but illustrative of a long line of Christian scholars and artists for whom faith and vocation were both intimately and fruitfully combined. In stark contrast, Christian scholars and artists now find themselves largely isolated from the cultural mainstream and hard-pressed to defend their historic and legitimate interest in the effecting and integration of faith and culture. The consequences have been disastrous, not only for the Christian scholar and artist, but, more importantly, for both the church and the university. The overwhelming majority of Christian undergraduate and graduate students attend secular institutions of higher learning. Most are painfully aware of the non-existence of any mainstream expression of Christian intellectual and artistic life that would engage prevailing world views on their own ground. Never has the Christian mind been more in need of finding its voice, nor the Christian soul more in need of rediscovering the language of imagination, with which to communicate its vision to a largely secularized generation. from CS Lewis.Org... cslewis.org maybe they could turn to Buddhism , practice more Yoga and depend less on miracles, myths and magic, and people rising from the dead ? Maybe become Vegetarians ? Admit animals too, also have souls ? ;-)