William, At 03:13 PM 10/4/03 +1200, you wrote: >>>How mournful, how sad. Having been disappointed by fools gold they stop seeking >>>gold. Maybe their expectations of the Bible count for them as what Baha'u'llah >>>called (in The Book of Certitude) 'the obscuring dust of acquired knowledge'.<<
Fundamentalism is a form of epistemic "absolutism." So is atheism. It may be easier to go from one absolute position to another than to one which requires one to think and evaluate. Mark A. Foster * http://MarkFoster.net http://CompuServe.m.foster.name ---------- You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Baha'i Studies is available through the following: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.jccc.net/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=bahai-st news://list.jccc.net/bahai-st http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist (public) http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (public)
