Marvin wrote: >>Christianity, > > Hinduism, Buddhism, the various animisms and polytheisms: they cannot, >to > > my knowledge, be reduced to a single common conception of the divine.
Dan replied: >No, but any single concept of the divine is bound to be limited and flawed >: as seeing through a glass, darkly. However, we can see each other as >fellow travelers. I don't doubt that you and I could come up with religions >that are so anathema to my way of thinking, that I cannot see them as >fellow travelers with myself. However, our "Faiths Together" group has >member churches from a very wide range of theists, and we do see a lot of >commonalty. Here's an analogy I've heard: Imagine a statue the size of the entire United States. Imagine that this statue is incredibly detailed. You can spend your whole life studying the details of one small area, maybe occasionally stepping back to get a bigger picture view. But the further back you stand, the less detail you see. I think the point of this analogy is that there are a lot of different beliefs, a lot of different ways of believing, but maybe all beliefs (or most, or at least many) are simply describing details from different parts of the statue. Reggie Bautista _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
