RE: Who was Jesus?
August 18, 2021 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2021 at 2:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 18, 2021 at 12:59 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote:(August 18, 2021 at 12:46 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.’ Ralph Waldo Emerson
BTW, great quote, by a leading theologian, philosopher and abolitionist activist from the 1800s. He was Unitarian - and still considered an important part of my UU church's roots (though the UU is no longer Christian).
Emerson believed in something called "The Oversoul" - an idea that we are all mystically connected, and this connection is his concept of God. Complete nonsense, but far more progressive than the Christianity of his time.
I can see where that's not so much nonsense as it's the association with nonsense as a component of many faiths. A sense of the numinous when considering our relationships to each other is -if that's what some people call a god today-, at least, real, present, and measurable.
If human society.....and we can see a direct line between oversoul and overmind, between mystical connection and cultural connection.... is thought of as the sacred article, the god, that which is not to be defaced or disadvantaged or disparaged or destroyed or disgraced. The living breathing we and all that it entails - well, shit, that's a fairly decent religion, imo.
It's nonsense that a djinn knocked up a wayward teen and gave birth to a god with a shitlist - but we are connected, and we do feel a certain way about that.
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