RE: Dear Atheists
November 12, 2016 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: November 12, 2016 at 11:20 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A long running, well documented, and constantly studied cultural fixation with the orient and other peoples mysticism.
As for the authors play on words....the field of christendom requires water from time to time, to keep it from getting stale like all the other religions and suffering their fates. The old description is no longer appealing, people have moved on, and this creates a need and a market for people who can explain an old idea in a new way. It allows adherents to think that their faith has somehow changed and been made more accurate, as they have.
It makes it relevant, to them, where the old way no longer seems so. The sheer irony here is lost on exactly as many of them that who don't realize the ad copy is all that's changed, like OP. Stuck in limbo, where he doesn't believe in the things he points to -as- his beliefs and their justifications.
As for the authors play on words....the field of christendom requires water from time to time, to keep it from getting stale like all the other religions and suffering their fates. The old description is no longer appealing, people have moved on, and this creates a need and a market for people who can explain an old idea in a new way. It allows adherents to think that their faith has somehow changed and been made more accurate, as they have.
It makes it relevant, to them, where the old way no longer seems so. The sheer irony here is lost on exactly as many of them that who don't realize the ad copy is all that's changed, like OP. Stuck in limbo, where he doesn't believe in the things he points to -as- his beliefs and their justifications.
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