Sounds like you want equality with the professors. You are there to learn from people that devote their lives to understanding this, meaning they are not simple, and expect them to step aside while a newcomer explains his theory. They have bible study where you can raise questions and have them answered, just do not constantly disrupt the class on Sunday morning. If you find you can't accept what they believe you can ask around for a group that is more in line with your beliefs. If you can find a group of spiritualists that all believe the same thing, which matches no other religion, then form a new religion.
On 12/5/06, Gruss Gott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > gMoney wrote: > > Your QED premature :) > > DOH! It's not my fault! You were talking about the ... ah, never > mind. Back to the topic. > > I get your point that churches can be good for people and/or do good > things. That's true because the basis of church is spirituality. > That is, the philosophical problem that has plagued mankind since He > became self aware is the question, why are we here? > > Gnosticism, or the quest for The Truth, pursues that answer. > > Christianity delivers that answer, but Christian Religion takes it one > step farther: it asks you to forsake all other pursuits. > > So let's talk about exclusion. It's not a bad thing. Professional > baseball, heck little league, is exclusionary. That's ok because not > everyone is talented at sports and baseball. > > Spirituality, on the other hand, is common to all humans that are self > aware. Religion, and therefore every Christian church, asks you to > halt your exploration of spirituality in favor of their answers. > > In return for fellowship, etc the price the Church extracts from you > is your compliance to their religion. Should you deviate, you are > excluded. That's the part that's wrong. > > Exploration of spirituality is a higher calling, religion is the > lowest common denominator; a brainwashing technique used to control > the other evil aspects of people's nature. Thus the dual nature of > religion: if it keeps you from killin' it's a good thing. > > It's my opinion of course, but anyone who's intellectually curious > will quickly out grow religion because it's a dead end. It's process > for process-sake. I hate process! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:221719 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
