RM> I have a question for you.  What are people so afraid of that they so
 RM> desperately :*NEED*: a god?
   I have a question for YOU.  Why do you assume that the experience of
divinity arose out of fear (angst) in the "desperate" sense?  Do we KNOW 
hat?
Moreover, I see no reason from our experience in the present that ANYBODY 
ver
needs "a god."  If any individuals experienced divinity it would not be just
simply "a god" or "some god."  It is in the experience of "exodus" from "a
god" that divinity experienced as no longer "intercosmic" was conceived.
Certainly Rudolph Otto explored this subject to a great extent in his 
lassic,
_The Idea of the Holy_ as has Mircea Eliade.  
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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