-> First the negative stuff..
-> I have never witnessed such an amazing lack of introspection coupled
with a
-> self righteousness almost beyond belief. It is Almost deserving of pity
for
-> a life ill-lived, but it is merely in the area of religion where opinion
-> becomes
-> scorn and invective become primitive grunts of meaningless, vile bilge.
-> Like Don Quixote's tilting at wind mills, I observe a stabbing at
abstractions he  does/will not understand. Opinion, bias, prejudice,
ignorance without curiosity...maybe this makes a man, not wrong,
inaccurate...but with an as yet un analyzed problem. A problem. Similar, in
my view, to that of 'Bible Thumpers' who make unassailable conviction of
poetry, that assails other views
-> from other traditions within Christianity...that ignores true
scholarship
-> by a  changing of it's authority to the authority of personal
'conviction'.
-> If nothing more Jesus was a psychological genius and predicted there
would
-> be a lot of that :-)...(As did Lao-Tse, Confucius, The Buddha,
Krishna...)
-> So...I have had the privilege of observing (And disagreeing) with both
-> types
-> -- both in my view centered in internalized unwarranted
self-justification.
-> Being as I am both an egotist, and an egoist, the above fills me with an 
-> (doubtless unwarranted) feeling of being superior to both.(Chuckle.)
-> ==========================================================
-> All right y'all, have at me! I am a devoted believer in 18 religions,
-> flawed as they are and as I am. (Many, I suppose would not have me in
their
-> ranks.)
-> That's 18 plus My church, The Church of Variable Likelihood...At my age,
-> every day is a Holiday :-)..and I've never had a better time :-)
-> Cheers! from the 81 year old, pseudo-intellectual heretic.
-> (Or as I have been net-mailed...a 'Fucking idiot' :-)
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