Greetings Micheal,
At 07:06 PM 1/31/2009, you wrote:
> From: MarshaV
> > > From: MarshaV
> > > 208 "The MOQ would add a fourth stage where the term "God" is
> > > completely dropped as a relic of an evil social suppression of
> > > intellectual and Dynamic freedom. The MOQ is not just atheistic
> > > in this regard. It is anti-theistic."
> >
> >MP: Thanks for those, Marsha.
> >
> >The one that I think most caught my eye was the one above. The question I
> >think that needs to be asked of adherents of MoQ is: Does the MoQ's anti-
> >theistic nature demand anti-theistic responses to theism in seeking
> >Quality in a theistic world? Is anti-theism the way to covercome
theism in an MoQ approach
> >just because the MoQ is itself anti-theistic?
>
> Greetings,
>
> Would it be acceptable to argue that the sun is in the center of the
> solar system with someone who believes the Earth to be in the center
> of the solar system? Yes.
>
> Marsha
MP: Yes. A true statement, but I don't see that its applicable to
theism; where
you can objectively/mathematically disprove (as much as one's acceptance of
reality permits) that the sun circles the earth, you can't do that with the
existence of God.
There is not a special category of knowledge that should remain
untouched by inquiry, challenge and debate.
If instead you are faced with a need to "convert" (which is, for all
intents and
purposes what you guys are talking about) why would you so blatantly go about
it doing it like religions did? Like the very things you criticize
in preaching for the
conversion?
Like religions did? I think not! Inquiry, challenge and debate...
In purporting to be higher in evolution, it appears decidedly common
to use the
same approach as that thing you claim has been surpassed, that should be
discarded for the replacement. And it will be equally as ineffective
as it was
before. Myth for myth is all that will happen. No understanding. No Quality
achieved. Just more stasis.
IMO of course.
Conventionally speaking, myth for myth is all that can happen, with a
movement towards stasis in some areas and movement towards freedom in
other areas.
Marsha
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