Ermintruder
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all...
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May I respectfully-but-relevantly point-out....that in many ways...the pursuit of absolute truths, the search for answers to the hardest of questions concerning life, the universe and everything....is religion (ie faith without evidence). Or science (belief only with evidence).
Or, there is also, in our parlance, Fortean Studies. Which can *in some way* be viewed as being a valid religious path for atheists.
I'm currently reading "Christ's Ventriloquists: The Event That Created Christianity" by Eric Zuesse. It is extremely good...and I will need to invoke my book-club proposition for shared analysis of it, here, on FMB. Be warned- if you do read it, you will never be able to look at Christianity in the same light ever again.
Not from that book, but from me: a thought.
Every religion knows beyond any doubt that only their route to enlightenment and salvation is right, and all others (importantly, even the closest of cousin beliefs) are all fundamentally-flawed and should cease to exist.
Therefore, the first-encounter inescapable logic is that they must all be wrong.
Each can (and should, at least) be a comfort. A conformity of useful and theraputic return, utility benefits deriving from a mythical investment.
See, how they dance to the gods? They have made they sun rise again, this morning. Had they not done so, it would be still cold and dark. Thank-you for your golden coin, which shines like old sol himself....I shall pray for you when I am at the market this morning. God speaks to me so much more clearly on a full belly...
Or, there is also, in our parlance, Fortean Studies. Which can *in some way* be viewed as being a valid religious path for atheists.
I'm currently reading "Christ's Ventriloquists: The Event That Created Christianity" by Eric Zuesse. It is extremely good...and I will need to invoke my book-club proposition for shared analysis of it, here, on FMB. Be warned- if you do read it, you will never be able to look at Christianity in the same light ever again.
Not from that book, but from me: a thought.
Every religion knows beyond any doubt that only their route to enlightenment and salvation is right, and all others (importantly, even the closest of cousin beliefs) are all fundamentally-flawed and should cease to exist.
Therefore, the first-encounter inescapable logic is that they must all be wrong.
Each can (and should, at least) be a comfort. A conformity of useful and theraputic return, utility benefits deriving from a mythical investment.
See, how they dance to the gods? They have made they sun rise again, this morning. Had they not done so, it would be still cold and dark. Thank-you for your golden coin, which shines like old sol himself....I shall pray for you when I am at the market this morning. God speaks to me so much more clearly on a full belly...