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Pastimes : History's effect on Religion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: exdaytrader76 who wrote (196)	7/29/2005 3:54:39 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 520

I think you are taking the analogy too far. Sufis believe everything in this world is beautiful as it is a manifestation/reflection of a Perfect God. The idea is not unique to them. Hindus believe the world we live in is the dream of a sleeping god. Some Deists believe that in creating the world, God became the world. What all these beliefs have in common is the belief in the unity of all existence, including God, as oppose to separation of parts. As a side note, and I am offering this purely as a point of interest and do not mean to pass judgement on your opinion as that would be a violation of the rules, believing in this world as less than "as good as it gets", is equivalent to saying that an almighty God could have done a better job but chose not to or that somehow he gets a perverse pleasure from the suffering of his creations...or at least that is as it has been argued in several religions that I know of...of course, the belief in a "perfect" creator is relatively new. For most of history, gods were merely superhumans with superflaws, so there can be many answers for an imperfect world.