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• Another excellent analysis and dissertation. You really ought to think of compiling these for a book - if you haven’t already.
• some sacred texts are deliberately obscure about it not because absolute evil doesn’t exist but because it is self referential.
• A very old, and in my view very wise Metropolitan was once asked to define God. He said, “Yes.”
• This is a well written and deeply valuable post. The primary underlying cause of our most serious social problems just might be our collective inability, or unwillingness, to think in abstract concepts and read what we call “sacred texts” with an eye toward metaphor and allegory.
• Jesus Christ, who knew something about Christianity, taught through the use of parables sprinkled with metaphor. Had he intended to establish an authoritarian religion based on literal truths, he no doubt would have simply provided us with a handy pocket-sized list of all such literal truths. Instead, he urged us to think for ourselves, challenge authority, and break the rules when we have to do so in the service of love and compassion.
• The Wisdom of Doubt, Part XI