| Re: Why Religious Belief Should Be Abandoned - Part 1 |
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Group: talk.religion.coursemiracle · Group Profile
Author: LeeLee Date: Aug 5, 2007 09:47
> Katie yahoo.com> wrote:>> "Human beings who sacrifice their intellectual integrity on the altar
>> of any religious dogma can work terrible mischief in this world.
>> Those who really believe they are doing "God's Will" can literally be
>> "murder" for the rest of us. "....
>> http://ffrf.org/fttoday/2001/nov01/ricker.html>
> "All fanatics are dangerous. Religious fanatics are especially
> so because they believe the 'Truth" they claim has the sanction
> of a deity and thus cannot be challenged by mere mortals."
This quote is from the essay Katie linked to, btw.
>
> You, Katie a religious fanatic, by this very definition! ;))
>
> Your burning bush had a deity write your Anti-
> channeling Manifesto on the "parchment" of your mind,
> and you don't believe any mere mortal has knowledge
> that could challenge the Truth of what you were 'told.'
>
> You generated your very own in a single night!
>
> And it has -perverted- your capacity for intellectual integrity,
> relative to the topic of inspired reception - or channeling -
> ever since.
>
> You emerged from that channeling dream with what you
> take to be "Truth," as it pertains to mankind's entire history
> of inspired reception and transmission of wisdom teachings,
> such as Helen's process. Your assured you that ALL
> such claims by "special" individuals -- and the works that
> they produce -- are FALSE. Without exception.
>
> That, Katie, is D O G M A. lol
Dogma needn't originate with anyone else's system of thought,
at all.
The term imo describes an assertion that is admitted into one's
belief system so deeply that the intellect is not to
question it. If it is admitted deeply enough into one's belief
system by merit of one's irrationally arrived-at FAITH in the
thought, then one doesn't believe there can EVER b merit in
allowing one's conviction and faith to be intellectually or
logically challenged. Katie had a dream that changed her life.
Presto! Dogma is born. In its most virulent, zealously
presumptive and obsessively intolerant form, this side
of the law.
Katie has a -dogmatic- belief that Helen CANNOT have
truthfully heard an inner dialogue responsible for this
entire Course in Miracles.
Her conviction came from this dream that she had:
http://cosmicfool.com/lazaris/channel.html
>
> Snookered -again- by the very thing you most claim to
> loathe in others.
>
> More "Notes to myself" from Katie Dean. :))
>
> ~ Lee
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