thread: 2006-09-08 : Picky-choosy religion, 3 views
On 2006-09-09, Sydney Freedberg wrote:
Jason: I have never had the slightest spiritual sensation or inclination, in Church, [or] in the presence of my daughter....
Do you love your daughter?
I'm going to resume the answer is "yes." If so, guess what: That is a spiritual sensation. And don't say, "Oh, that's just instinct": The spiritual is rooted in the physical, at least for humans; your soul and your body are simply two organs of the same being.
Lazy preachers and bad movies have gotten people to image that a "spiritual experience" has to involve shimmering light and a boys' choir singing a capella on the soundtrack. Bullshit. Genesis says God created us out of mud, which is as good a term for the "primordial soup" postulated by paleontologists as you'd expect in a 3,000-year-old document.
Brennan: I totally reject any authority telling me what to believe (including tradition)
Let me press you on what you mean by "any authority." Do you mean you reject an authority figure saying "Do this! Think that!" without bothering to explain? Or do you mean no one is an authority in the sense of knowing more than you about any spiritual subject, so you don't have to listen to anybody?
