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To: MacDorcha
If you want to open that can of worms, fine by me.

Not particularly, no. The issue of blind faith is the main reason why I quit coming to FR's religious threads. Too easy to stir up bad feeling amongst the different breeds of "faithful".

Norse heathenism appeals to me because of the emphasis on honor, family, and living a good life. Instead of focusing on tangential details like if the entirety of existence came into being in six days, or from the body of an otherworldly creature.

Neither creation myth really adds anything to the basic moral precepts. Those that DO get all a flutter over it, are normally those who will argue endlessly about the glass in the windowpane, and never really look out the window.

25 posted on 09/06/2004 7:00:10 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (For an Evil Super Genius, you aren't too bright are you?)
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To: Dead Corpse

I agree with you, Norse mythos has an appeal (as does Celtic)

However, as you pointed out: HOW we got here has little to do with WHY we got here, or WHAT we are doing about it now.

Live life to the fullest, love others, and learn. West, Christian, East. All have a place. If you are drawn by the virtue, check out Daoism. A focal point for them is: all things hold the Truth somehow. You'll learn how to see things and how they relate while being different on the skin.

Of course, then there is the psychology aspect of religion. What is God (mostly) to YOU? Is God Truth? Beauty? Strength? Wisdom? Life? Love? Fun? Technology? Intellegence? Understanding?

Personally, I go for Truth. And as they say, the truth will set you free.


28 posted on 09/06/2004 9:45:45 PM PDT by MacDorcha
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