Re: Touching faith in the GICB's omnipotence.

Post #133,493 by deSitter 1/4/04 9:16:39 AM Reply	Re: Touching faith in the GICB's omnipotence. Indeed, why resort to a parlor trick? That is what is so puzzling about these creationists. If one steps out on a clear night, looks up into infinity, and asks "Why is there anything here at all?" a sense of mystery and awe comes over one that does not require parlor tricks to ignite. I can't understand why this truly religious experience is unavailable to the creationists - and I maintain then that the impetus behind creationism is the need for authority exactly to prevent the soul from being overwhelmed by the majesty and mystery of it all. So creationism is not only a hideous affront to science, it is a blasphemous insult to God, and a deliberate pushing away of actual religious inspiriation. -drl
Post #133,529 by JayMehaffey 1/4/04 2:29:43 PM Reply	Fundamentalists don't like mystery Awe certainly, but mystery is exactly what Christian fundamentalists are trying to avoid. What they want is certainty, which is almost exactly the opposite of mystery. They can't stand the uncertainty of only being 99% sure of something, they want 100% certainty. This is why they would rather believe a trite explanation presented as absolute revelation then incomplete but plusible solution. Jay
Post #133,560 by Ashton 1/4/04 6:43:55 PM Reply	It is the Heat Death of the literalists - Those who wish to be handed effortlessly, The Right Answers\ufffd to questions they never have felt! (nor ever worked to investigate, within or without). I believe that the general dumbing-down, so evident all-round (the preoccupation with Machiavellian bizness dogma, that mindset which now pervades almost all of life) - is the Real CANCER: we see merely the overt symptoms, the endless materialistic consumption as a consequence of the root, a massive poverty of thought, feeling -- personal Effort. Ennui. Infantile amusement.. for life. 25,002 songs about, She Left Me .. Oh, Woe Woe Woe {plonk} And not - vice versa. The seeking of ever more automatic 'comfort', the choosing of the simplest content-free courses in "school" and forever after - betrays the univeral sloth; diversion/distraction (from the fluff within) - is the evidence of why.. trite action flics/games/campaigns are now The Norm. We Are the Eloi, at last! 'Creationists'? Hah.. Seekers of Mind-fluff (if... the seeking isn't Too enervating - maybe 1.5 hours on a Sunday?) Pshaw, but WTF - it's all just a Play, anyway!

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