On 06/23/2017 12:08 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: > Works for me, I was thinking "crypto athiest"...
Naa. I don't qualify as any sort of atheist. I have gods, they're just unique gods. > Interesting that you didn't believe "a word uttered in Mass" while I, as a > young adult came to believe (or at least a appreciate) a great deal of what > was uttered in Mass. […] I "believed" a great deal of what he offered in > those Homilies. Hm. I suppose we could parse "believe". But I've had way too many arguments about the difference (or lack thereof) between belief and knowledge. I don't enjoy them much anymore. > I lost what little "faith" in Christian Dogma I might have had when during a > summer Bible School teaching (9 years old?). I got really excited by the > many "miracles" (manna from heaven, red sea parting, burning bushes, virgin > birth, rising from the dead, etc.) and when I expressed my enthusiasm, taking > these to be literal and true and verifiable stories, my Bible School teacher > became very stern with me, but did not attempt to explain allegory or parable > to me, leaving me to believe that SHE didn't believe those stories either. > Kinda undermined the magic of it all! I got a little back years later when I > came to understand allegory and parable. Heh, I kinda wish I'd had more "people in positions of power" like that. Maybe I did and just ignored any power they had. My CCD teacher taught us to meditate and chant. I knew Jesus as Buddha before I learned anything about Buddha. -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove