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Originally Posted by Angela  r, I don't mean to appear disrespectful to you, and this subject sure gets het up, but please know that I enjoy our exchanges. (I just hope the moderators don't close us down for our passion!) Thanks for letting me know about the deletion -- I thought I was hallucinating. |
likewise, though I wonder if getting heated up about it is good -I was just thinking (when i get into these kind of passionate debates - answers to points tend to pop up when i am thinking of other stuff - what you focus on you get more of-- how did i do this to myself on a productivity/self improvement forum.
its easy to mis read joke, sarcasm, humor (especially subtle) on forums ...and there can be a spiral of inflammatory rhetoric ...i am reminded of a line from agony and exctasy (a movie about micheangleo's tempestous relation with the pope and sistine chapel" when rex harrison as the pope says "do you see how well we understand one another when we don't shout'
Michael Chui -holding a gun to ones head is one think, thinking someone might be thinking of holding a gun to one's head and why is another.
"Most religious persons are equally, if not more, ignorant of other religions. How many Jews are enthusiasts of the Greek mythos? How many Buddhists have studied the Kabbalah? How many Christians have investigated Tantrism? They're all missing some "beautiful thoughts": why do you not consider the blind, too?"
how do you know most "religious persons" are?
probably some do as I have tried to say i find both forms of fanaticism abohorrent - if the dismiss them simply because they are ...on the other hand if it is something to do with belief- for example a muslim artist not wanting to depict the God, i can understand it. personally I think religion provides a wonderful framework, cultural and folk memory and 'wisdom of the ages' in which to explore other things...