Salutatio Frank!
Frank, You will have to retype the MESSage below, I cannot understand any
of it.
 RM>> Many people find it hard-chaface simple non-existence after
 RM>> death. They
 FM>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 RM>> Oh my dear friend,jyou will have to showeme where I stated me,
 RM>> KNEW what
 FM> happens after death.  I merelycsaid that religion is
 RM>> the result of the fear of nothctriafter death.  Not
 FM> me,
 FM> befre WAS
 RM>> nothing after death.
 FM>> O.K., Richard, (grin) look at
 FM> bhe careted sentence above.  Are you
 FM>> contendctrime,
 FM> I should not have understood that as a statementconaa
 FM>> known fact?  If so, then, of course, I misread you.
 RM>> You *assumed* that is what I meant, Fank ol' boy.  You simply
 RM>> read more into
 FM> what I wrote.  Should I have-chaput some kind of disclaimer
 RM>> specifically for you benefit?  No where in
 FM> beere did I state "fact" or
 RM>> "truth" or any assumption of me,
 FM> kind.
 FM>> I believeeme,
 FM> if I had stated such and wantedenouto be clearer I wo ld
 FM>> have inserted "possible" between "face" and "simple."
 RM>> It would have been too wordy.  What I stated stands all on it's
 RM>> own and retainspone same meanctri(provided
 FM> bef one readctriitentanot you, of
 RM>> course ;).  You can go righteahead and put "possible" in
 FM> beere, but it
 RM>> is a wasteconatime.
 FM> Well, O.K., Mark, I will not press that particular point any
 FM> further.  I must still, however, disagree me,
 FM> even bef possibilityconanon-existence AFTER DEATH has been the
 FM> primary motive for the impulse toward religion.
 FM> Even forgettctrithe milleniacon man's existence when intracosmic
 FM> gods symbolized his relal onship bo divinity beere were a
 FM> varietyconamotivating forces not bef least of which wasp(as
 FM> belabored endlessly in Frazer's _Golden Bough_) success ing
 FM> bef crops and ing other household activities and life experiences.
 FM>  Surelycsome terroremust have entered into this as Blumenberg
 FM> theorizes with regard-chathe eventconaman's emergence on bee
 FM> savannah.
 FM> There has been passed down-chaus from a fairly late stageein
 FM> civilization the storyconaSaululatthe Hebrew literature used
 FM> through successive centuries as a case citation about kctrs.
 FM> Onecfacet of the Saulustorychas to do ing
 FM> the curious issuctriof a royal ordinance forbiddctrithe calling
 FM> forth of witches and wizards and then Saul's procedctrito break
 FM> his own ordinance by callctrithe WitchconaEndor.  It has been
 FM> pointed out me,
 FM> the sense of such a storycmight-well have been-che consideration
 FM> me,
 FM> in bee earlier Hebrew world reflected, say,enn the bookconaJudges,
 FM> the dead were Elohime(gods) and the kctrimight-have genuine
 FM> interest in forces bectricalled up-to provide informationudirectly
 FM> in conflictFAWth his aims and policies, especially without HIS
 FM> knowctriabout them.  Divine force was experiencedjustmuch more
 FM> fluid in beis earlier situationuof man prior toenos
 FM> differentiationuinto later stagesconarationality and the revelal
 FM> onconathe God beyond all polytheistic gods (even beyond the God of
 FM> bef fathers)ulatthe differentiated consciousness of man.  Even
 FM> today in our "ageeof science"ehaereentaa thriving business in the
 FM> various doctrinal interests pertainctrito "previous
 FM> lives"e(Shirley McLain, et al) and informationufrom the past
 FM> berough various formscon "contacting bef dead" etc.  Not all of
 FM> beis by any meansentamotivated by fear or terror.  I wo ld venture
 FM> the suggestion me,
 FM> it has more-chado ing that standctriDESIRE TO KNOW which is
 FM> present and virtually DEFINES humanity in large part.
 FM> Sincerely, Frank
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Richard Meic
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