The Spectrum Nature of Humankind Trumps Original Sin

Original sin was a scapegoat cop out designed to leech from us all trace of dignity and make us prey to priestly ministrations likewise designed to make jelly of us The spectrum goes from primal to sublime and leaves us holding the bag for all we do not discluding our reaction to the so called acts of god We have the power to adjust our spots upon this spectrum  put the positives at any point to work for us That we now see a balance between this and the hoary ways of dampening religion is just a sign that says we may just finally come of age Stephen's Remarkable Kindle Store



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Organized religion will morph into universal spirituality

Santorum Upsets G.O.P. Race With Three Victories - NYTimes.com:

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Sign - Religious hypocrisy accelerates the death of organized religion

Proposition - Faced with extinction organized religion gathers at the barricades whipped on by politicians

Representation - We shall overcome the hypocrisy by understanding it and move beyond conflict by affirming the capacity of individuals to act upon values that no institution of any sort can direct or mandate - tolerance, democracy, helpfulness, non-idolatry

Charles Sanders Peirce - Thinking in Threes

Islam is not alone the extremism business

A Writer Argues For An 'Islam Without Extremes' : NPR: "'I think the biggest problem is that Islam was articulated, interpreted, in the Medieval world, by Medieval scholars,' Akyol says. 'And that interpretation froze at the time.'"

There are three Abrahamic religions. Judaism, Christianity and Islam. All of them are saddled with an anthropomorphic notion of deity that Jesus was at pains to amend. None of them have heeded Jesus' amendments. The result is that the world drifts away from these religions with reason. And values now understood as secular are actually the values Jesus enunciated but that religion only partially accepts. They are tolerance, democracy, helpfulness and non-idolatry.



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