> As usual, I enjoy reading your comments. What is mindboggling to me is > most humans devotion to religion,(incl you as evidenced by your sig file > quotes.) The leap of faith required to believe in dogmatically derived > absolute values of ethics, aesthetics, and metaphysics is perhaps the > highest order result of parental and societal conditioning. > > Cheers, > Steve >
There is, IMHO, another understanding of religion, an alternative to inculcated dogmatism and perhaps its anethema. This is religion as groping toward answers to profound mystery. Dogma prescribes boundaries that cannot take you very far. You become very uncomfortable if the boundaries are overstepped. Reason can take you a whole lot further, but it too eventually reaches its limits. Then you are left with mystery, and yet you can't just walk away. You still want to know what lies there. It is at that point that you confront God. Ed Weick
