07-22-2016, 02:25 PM
(07-22-2016, 11:56 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:You also come across as dogmatic. I agree the warning applies to me as part of the 'all'.(07-22-2016, 09:12 AM)radind Wrote: A warning for all of us.
Quote:://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/ideology[url=http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/2918.Robert_Anton_Wilson][/url]
“Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith or a secular Ideology (Ideologies are the modern form of Faiths) and just stopped thinking.”
― Robert Anton Wilson
Ah, I knew him well. Had him as a guest speaker at my Fair production several times. Paid him too!
Yes indeed, he's right. The burden is on you there, radind. To accept your interpretation of the Bible, which has been handed down to you for almost 2000 years, needs some more thinkin' There is no basis for this worldview, other than belief that the Bible is the word of God. Belief is not "thinking." It is accepting an ideology.
In my case, of course, there's no problem; I don't accept either the secularist ideology OR the traditional religious one. If anything, I "think" way too much.
… whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things. Phil 4:8 (ESV)