Centroids: I wasn't prepared for the interest in things Zoroastrian this morning. Friends of mine chimed in with various comments and Chris was very communicative. One friend with whom the subject of RC has come up in our e-mails over the past couple of years asked how I could be both a hard line religious person and have a very broad minded outlook at the same time. Here was my reply; might be of interest to the group Billy ------------- Well, I love religious subject matter -to me it is social and cultural art and is also a type of psychology. Freud definitely saw the parallels even if he tended to be morbid about them. Religion is also social glue that holds societies together. Besides, many religious ideas strike me as very true. So, Atheist attacks on religion tick me off, big time. Get rid of religion and ask for chaos. In that sense I am a fanatic. And proud of it. But Re: orthodoxies as we have them, not so much, and some are bad news in this day and age. So I strongly favor freedom to pick and choose, that is, to rethink beliefs, to be creative, to blend ideas from different cultures, etc, all of which is ultra liberal. You can call it Radical Centrist theology. One basic idea of RC in all things is pairing of opposites that make good sense together.
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