From: Paul Turner (paulj.turner@ntlworld.com)
Date: Wed Nov 26 2003 - 11:04:40 GMT
Hi Dan
Dan said:
How does MoQ apply to Catholism and any actual belief in God, or "a"
God. What is "The Bible"? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Paul:
Although I can't add anything to it, this excerpt from Ant McWatt's MOQ
Textbook (Section 2.5.1) may be relevant to your question.
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Dynamic Quality as used in the MOQ is fundamentally different from how
the term 'God' is used in the theistic religions of Judaism,
Christianity and Islam. As noted above, this is because (in the context
of Northrop's definition of theism) it's non-theistic as it's
indeterminate, has no personality and is immediately apprehended.
"Quality can be equated with God, but I don't like to do so. 'God', to
most people, is a set of static intellectual and social patterns. Only
true religious mystics can correctly equate God with Dynamic Quality. In
the West, particularly around universities, these people are quite
rare." (Pirsig, 1994)
In consequence of his rejection of theism, Pirsig (1994) is sceptical
about numerous statements that supposedly represent 'God's will'.
"The others who go around saying 'God wants this,' or 'God will answer
your prayers,' are, according to the Metaphysics of Quality, engaging in
a minor form of evil. Such statements are a lower form of evolution,
intellectual patterns, attempting to contain a higher one."
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