[John] > Thus their opposition to reason is a scary thing. But what a > fundamentalist fundamentally believes in is the saving power of Jesus Christ - and > by that I mean, a certain branding, a marketing idea that sells them on the > idea of themselves. Shivers. Basing man's salvation on "reason" is their > idea of heresy.
[Khaled] Let me ad another thought to that. something I have been debating with friends for a while. When you usually ask people across religious lines, "what to you have to do in order to have a good after life?' whether you believe in reincarnation or heaven or whatever. Or even to have a good life, the here and now. You will get answers like: Believe, pray, fast, do good, help the poor and so on. The American Fundamentalist answer is not in what you DO, but who you know. Who you believe your savior is. It's a small nuance, and they may say do good later in their answer. So one answer is what I the individual have to DO. Again, effort on my part, and lots of it is physical efforts, the labors of Hercules. The fundamentalist's answer is that I really don't have to exert any physical efforts at all. in fact no mental effort is needed either, no thinking or reasoning or asking questions. All I have to do in put my faith into something, and hope for the best in the end. Khaled ____________________________________________________________ Senior Assisted Living Put your loved ones in good hands with quality senior assisted living. Click now! http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=igh_184oQHdPxrTkZnb59AAAJ1BoN5MIA846iJgpKACKCvEMAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAASUQAAAAA= Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
