On Dec 4, 2009, at 8:52 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
On 3 Dec 2009, at 21:11, Bruce Bostwick wrote:
All religions are fake from the perspective of those seeing them
from outside.
No religion is fake from the perspective of its true believers.
Not a very useful metric, all things considered.
I see all 10,000 or so current religions as fake and a religionist
sees 9,999 of them as fake :-)
Almost in Agreement Maru
This is one of the best statements you've ever made.
You sound very much aligned with Leo Tolstoy, who, in his attempts to
promote nonviolent resistance as the truest expression of the
teachings of Christ (which he saw as a philosophy of life, not as the
words of the Son of God, nor the ravings of a lunatic), had nothing,
nothing at all good to say about churches. In fact, he goes as far as
to say that their very existence as churches is in opposition to Christ.
You might like to read his "The Kingdom of God is Within You", in
which he presents his arguments, which have reminded me of yours from
time to time, quite brilliantly.
Dave
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