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To: little jeremiah
It seems to me that you view responses from “the opposition” as chances to scorn and ridicule

Only if they are ridiculous. Otherwise I respect everyone's beliefs as long as they are stated as faith and not fact. But you made your position clear and I respect that.

141 posted on 04/06/2010 9:29:59 PM PDT by kosta50 (The world is the way it is even if YOU don't understand it)
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To: kosta50

I can discuss religious ideas or conceptions with people who hold beliefs I consider untrue without resorting to ridicule or contempt. You apparently cannot. As a student of the Vedas (what is popularly called Hinduism), there are many beliefs held by Christians I do not think are correct, or perhaps understood in the right way. But I never adress Christians - or I try not to - with ridicule or contempt.

Here’s an example:

If you take a long view of a large object, for instance a mountain, you see all the parts of it - the rock above the treeline, distant waterfalls, large ravines, maybe a glacier, perhaps several peaks, and some cloud cover.

Another person may be standing on the edge of one ravine, or next to the glacier, or one one of the peaks, and all they can see is the spot they are on.

Now picture several people on the mountain, each seeing a different part of the mountain. If each person thinks there is no more to the mountain than the spot they can view, are they wrong?

So even people with very differing understandings or beliefs, I often think that they are just standing on a different part of the mountain, maybe part is covered with clouds. At least they’re on the mountain.


144 posted on 04/06/2010 9:51:15 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gamaya Tamaso Ma Jyotir Gamaya)
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