When we accept doctrinal applications of our very meaning and purpose in life, is this only at forfeiture of some of our independence, of our personal, spiritual security?
After all, to accept theology is to accept a definition of our life's purpose and ultimately its result, is it not? Man seems to have a need to answer questions that perhaps were never meant to be challenged, considered, debated, or even thought up in the first place......only accepted.
After all, the concrete facts of life and our existence are all too readily apparent; it would seem that religion addresses questions that were never in existence--or meant to exist--until someone with too much time on their hands took the time and thought them up.
What do you think? If we lose the precepts of our various religions, do we encounter loss of equilibrium, fear, a sense of hopelessness....or do we encounter liberation?
Is the Pope really any freer than any of us, or does he just have
his private jail cell?
2007-12-20
15:13:05
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Jack B, goodbye, Yahoo!
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