Angel
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A Defense of Religion
This thread is dedicated to the PHILOSOPHICAL defense of religion.
Not this religion or that religion, but religion in the general sense --
the religious attitude, if you will -- the religious impulse, the religious experience.
This thread is not about organized religion.
It is not about Christianity or Judaism or Islam or Hinduism or Buddhism, or any of the
other major religions of the world.
This thread is about what was in Man's heart and head twenty thousand years before the major religions were organized.
This thread is about that original connection to the world that recognizes and acknowledges the world's spiritual provenance.
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I aim to show that religion, in the sense just adumbrated, is a profoundly rational response to the mysteries surrounding human life on earth.
Indeed, that it is the only truly rational response to life.
To fall short of a religious experience of life is to fall short of rationality.
Because the religious experience begins where all experience begins: CONSCIOUSNESS.
Mind, spirit, soul, psyche -- these are the familiar names of the nuances of consciousness as they have come down to us across the ages.
Let us begin with two self-evident truths:
CONSCIOUSNESS IS IMMATERIAL
REALITY IS CONSCIOUSNESS OF REALITY
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"Skeptics, on guard!"
This thread is dedicated to the PHILOSOPHICAL defense of religion.
Not this religion or that religion, but religion in the general sense --
the religious attitude, if you will -- the religious impulse, the religious experience.
This thread is not about organized religion.
It is not about Christianity or Judaism or Islam or Hinduism or Buddhism, or any of the
other major religions of the world.
This thread is about what was in Man's heart and head twenty thousand years before the major religions were organized.
This thread is about that original connection to the world that recognizes and acknowledges the world's spiritual provenance.
***
I aim to show that religion, in the sense just adumbrated, is a profoundly rational response to the mysteries surrounding human life on earth.
Indeed, that it is the only truly rational response to life.
To fall short of a religious experience of life is to fall short of rationality.
Because the religious experience begins where all experience begins: CONSCIOUSNESS.
Mind, spirit, soul, psyche -- these are the familiar names of the nuances of consciousness as they have come down to us across the ages.
Let us begin with two self-evident truths:
CONSCIOUSNESS IS IMMATERIAL
REALITY IS CONSCIOUSNESS OF REALITY
***
"Skeptics, on guard!"