On Apr 11, 2006, at 11:36 AM, William T Goodall wrote:
On 11 Apr 2006, at 4:33PM, Nick Arnett wrote:
But
there's no doubt in my mind that I also choose my theology because
of my
political and social beliefs. They are inseparable and
intertwined, as I
suspect is true for people all over the world.
So religion is just believing whatever you feel like believing then?
Why do you need religion for that?
You don't, unless you have an impossibly shallow understanding of
religion and insist on using the term incorrectly as a proxy for
"taking the matter of having a relationship with a deity seriously".
Nick said that he chose his theology -- which I happen to know he does
in the context of the Lutheran denomination of Christianity -- on the
basis of his political and social beliefs. I have done much the same
thing, as have many other believers of various religions. And the
irreligious as well.
Neither necessarily dominates: my theology (my understanding of God and
of God's relationship with humanity) informs how I view human relations
(political and social beliefs) and my view of human relations informs
how I understand God and God's relationship with humanity. They are, to
steal a phrase, "inseparable and intertwined".
Religion doesn't necessarily enter into it,
Dave
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