Hey Curtis, I pasted a link to a short 5 minute video created by my friend Dennis Prager, talk show host, on what he considers the most important verse of the Old Testament with regards to God, meaning, and nature. You may find it interesting, food for thought:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_-E2OfFjpg --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <curtisdeltabl...@...> wrote: > > > > > > "When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship > > > > nothing but worships everything". > > > > > > What a fantastic quote! > > > > FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > You do realize the quote is not recommending that one > > stop worshiping God, but rather the opposite, right?--- In > > I didn't have any context for the intention of the author but found it fit my > experience of dropping theism pretty well. I guess I had it all wrong. Doing > a bit of research and finding this version: "The first effect of not > believing in God is to believe in anything." > > I disagree with this statement and will have to do a bit more digging to see > what was meant. I don't see how seeing God as a man made myth makes you more > gullible, it made me less. > > What I found appealing in my mistaken impression of the first quote was that > appreciating the world more was one of the results of me dropping out of > theism. Life itself became holy in a naturalistic sense of the word. > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, sgrayatlarge <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > > > In this day and age why would anyone follow a guru? > > > > Enlightenment? Liberation? Burn Karma? Not likely folks, > > > > wake up and smell the chai > > > > > > > > To quote the great GK Chesterton- > > > > > > > > "When Man ceases to worship God he does not worship > > > > nothing but worships everything". > > > > > > What a fantastic quote! > > > > You do realize the quote is not recommending that one > > stop worshiping God, but rather the opposite, right? > > > > (Also, it's not actually from Chesterton, but that's > > another story.) > > >
