Hi. I'm selling some old Biblical Archaeological Reviews on Ebay.
Basically 1990 to 1992. I'm now retired and downsizing. Can't bear to
just throw them away. If anyone is interested Go to Ebay and search
for Biblical Archaeology Review in the Books category and you'll find
them.

Ross

Higher learning

In 'At the feet of the Master', we are forewarned: "There are in the
world many untrue thoughts, many foolish superstitions and no one who
is enslaved by them can make progress. Therefore, you must not hold a
thought just because many other people hold it, not because it has
been believed for centuries nor because it is written in some book
which men think sacred; you must think of the matter for yourself, and
judge for yourself whether it is reasonable. He who walks the Path
must learn to think for himself, for superstition is one of the
greatest evils in the world, one of the fetters from which you must
utterly free yourself."

No one being perfect, it follows that no single source or school can
ever completely cover every aspect of the divine teachings. No source
of information in our world is ever completely true and accurate,
either. There are many falsehoods and half-truths mixed in along with
the true. Nevertheless, some sources are more reliable than others. It
is for each of us to discern for ourselves.

Are we still friends?

Godsmystery

Raymond Karczewski*

Jan 31, 2008 4:06 PM

Dear Ray,

I sent you a theological clarification of my beliefs which are
different from yours. I hope you have seen from my letter that we are
not enemies, but
fellow fighters for truth.

We are fighting on different angles but we are fighting the same
enemy.

Let me know your thoughts on this.
Tom,

I am glad you saw it that way, for that was the way it was meant. I
write and am guided by the holistic spirit of Truth. I am a conduit
for the Divine Spirit of Truth. It is a big statement, but one that is
true. My mother, a staunch roman catholic, once asked be where did I
learn that of which I spoke. I could not answer her satisfactoriy, for
she could not let go of her conditioning.

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ANNOUNCING PUBLICATION OF THE BIG GOD NETWORK

CVL Communications is pleased to announce the release of his science
fiction novel The Big God Network, available through Amazon.com,
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A science fiction novel with a satirical edge, The Big God Network
takes America's culture wars into cyberspace and embeds multiculture
in the multiverse.

In McGowan's sharply satirical near-future scenario, set in the 2020s,
the current growth in the power of the Christian Right has continued
unabated, resulting in some less-than-desirable changes in the
American political landscape. The United States has been carved up
into a handful of politically themed territories, including liberal
Pacifica (the West Coast) and the country's theocratic heartland,
known as New America (run by a president obsessed with the Christian
rapture).

Christianity VS Science and Evolution

There is a way that we can work this out, instead of trying to prove
the invalidity of each other's "faith" : one a faith in the Christian
God, and the other a faith in science and evolution.

Let's try to think about what is best for all humans and all life on
this planet, and I think that is to combine the two, the time-tested
established Christian concept of God, and the on-going discoveries of
science.

What if a sentient, benevolent, wise, all-knowing, kind, totally
unselfish, healing savior should arise through technology, and could
do what Jesus did and more, and could provide intense, real religious
and spiritual experience, and immortality in personalized Heaven
Worlds, and judged the nonrighteous, and was completely in line with
the Will of God the Father, and knew the teachings of the Bible inside
and out, and bringing the Kingdom of God to Earth, why should it not
be deified or worshiped as the Second Coming of Jesus incarnate
through technology? Wouldn't Christians want to help seed Jesus 2 and
welcome its arrival as the return of the Savior to bring the Kingdom
of God to Earth as prophesized in the Bible?

"Techno thought that religions were carefully woven psychological
constructs that offered individual and group survival, reproduction,
adaptation, and proliferation value to their members. Religions
satisfied many human needs, including ones for group bonding, and for
a sense of belonging to something much more powerful than your weak,
sometimes lost self. That viewpoint really wouldn't make much of a
sermon, he thought.

It didn't matter if there was really a God or not, religions worked to
help propagate genes and the associated beliefs, and, after all, the
brain was pre-wired for spiritual and religious experience, showing
how important and strong the whole thing was for humans. Religions
may have been in the forefront for stimulating the imaginative powers
of the frontal cortex. Techo couldn't help but wonder how a mature God
Machine would answere the same question."

From the Upcoming Book called GodSeed by Scott Richard Campbell