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From: Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 09 March 2004 18:46
Subject: Re: God & Religion
>It must be nice to know what the phrase "fully human" means.
I had to go back to Peter's to see what it was he said which I couldnt
remember and there was nothing there meriting this
He said he came to feel you can't be fully human... etc
and that was as strong as it got
seems to me you're the one who thinks they *know things
>You seem to think that those of us for whom religion is at best an object
>of anthropological and psychological study can't "take to ourselves the
>world we are in, interiorise it," that we're in that sense less "fully
>human."
that's pushing it - What you quote from has an _if_ in it, nor is it about
you. You're stuck on either / or; and I don't think Peter is. The likelihood
is that youre not going to agree; but in rejecting what he says in this way
it seems to me that you are demanding of him that what he says be assessed
as an either / or position and it isnt and either / or position
>relative "humanity" of those around you. You're free to believe whatever
>makes you happy.
How very USAmerican!
Sanity would require that that set of beliefs be capable
>of modification by experience.
and expediency presumably
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