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I like this. Just wanted to point out that a lot of religions are contrary to this, and actually encourage a dualistic world view. Black & white thinking. Christianity is a big one.


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I feel the need to defend christianty, but Kip is clearly calling out NotReady's version rather than mine.

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Exactly. My later post clarified:

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The Bible can be interpreted mystically as you mention, but most denominations don't. It's pretty Black & White mentality. Just read NotReady's posts.

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I should try to be careful and not lump all sects of Christianity into the same boat. Not sure about UCC, but I do know of some denominations that have a more liberal and less black/white interpretation of the Bible. These people are more rational than the more Fundamentalist denominations.

The most rational denomination I've seen is the Unitarian-Universalist denomination. They are so rational, that a lot of other denominations don't consider them to be Christians. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]