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To: Scythian

Everybody has a blind spot. No exceptions.


8 posted on 10/26/2009 7:54:38 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: Republic of Texas
Everybody has a blind spot.

Religion is, by it's nature, transcendental. It is beyond logic and observation because divine agency passes human understanding. You can either accept it or reject it but you cannot constrain it. You cannot posit a god and they demand that he act in ways that we can understand. I think religious belief must always be exceptional, we can judge human activity, politics, society, etc. by human standards and leave room for religious beliefs beyond our sight, a blind spot to be sure, but as W Blake put it,
“May God us keep
From single vision
And Newton's sleep.”

106 posted on 10/26/2009 8:23:00 AM PDT by Old North State
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