From: C.L. Everett (seaelle@gmail.com)
Date: Sat Aug 27 2005 - 18:46:21 BST
[Arlo]
I "believe" they all give mostly similar answers wrapped in their own
cultural-historical symbolic language. I "do not believe" any one of these
particular cultural-historical tellings is "truth". To paraphrase Pirsig, I
would say believing such a thing would be like believing "polar coordinates" to
be "Truth" and "Cartesian coordinates" to be "heresay".
The fundamentalists problem (whether Islamic or Christian... or whatever) is
always that they consider the cultural-historical story to be Truth, and the
message/meaning the story was meant to convey as secondary. Millions kill each
other in wars over who said "thou shall not kill". The saddest irony I can
think of.
Arlo
Amen in brother. Sing it. Hallelujah! No, I'm serious. You nailed
it for me. God I luv the succinct. I wish I was better at.
On 8/27/05, MarshaV <marshalz@charter.net> wrote:
> At 09:23 AM 8/27/2005 -0400, Arlo wrote:
>
> >... Christian "fundamentalists" lead mostly cooshy, comfortable lives...
>
>
> Hi Arlo,
>
> I don't think this statement is true. Do you have any proof of its validity?
>
> Marsha
Marsha, as evidenced by my across the street neighbors, it's not true:
See this:
http://westmo.ieverett.com/donaldStreet/
Course it's all in context. A tent's cushy for folks living in cardboard boxes.
I'm surrounded by "fundamentalists" of all Xtian persuasions and I
have yet to get into any kind of debate like the ones on this forum.
Odd. I think worldwide it might be the opposite, poverty may "beget"
the narrow and strict fundamentalist outlook.
C.L.
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