--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jst...@...> wrote: [...] > I still think the most important thing to bear in mind > is that if, as a religious person, you don't believe in > what another religion teaches, practices of that other > religion that don't involve conscious professions of > faith in its teachings cannot conflict with your own > beliefs, >
Except when they do, of course. > just as a matter of logic. Logic within religion? Some would claim that the ultimate oxymoron. I once got a call from a friend on Purusha warning me about my improper use of TM Speak. Seems that in theh course of talking on the phone with someone about how to set up some publicity, I said "the maharishi" instead of "Maharishi" and this set off alarm bells about my status as an insider that eventually reached the ears of my friend, who said he had "smoothed things over but thought I should be aware of the situation." Another annecdote that comes to mind is the time that I said something that offended the sensibilities of the Unitarian Universalist church secretary, who blurted "you just don't understand The Unitarian Universalist Way." When I mentioned this to my friend, the minister of the church, he laughed and said "'The Unitarian Universalist Way'... What a concept!" No doubt people feel the same way about my beliefs but they'd be wrong because all MY beliefs are logical. ;-) L
