Re: MD On Faith

From: David Morey (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 21 2004 - 18:59:59 BST

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    Don Cupitt's Sea Of Faith group is an example.

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    From: "Scott Roberts" <jse885@earthlink.net>
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    > Mark, Chuck,
    >
    > I would like to add another reason to deplore the animosity. As I said in
    > a
    > reply to DMB, to insist that the MOQ be anti-theist locks out the millions
    > of theists who could also be MOQists. (It also, technically, locks me out,
    > as I am neither theist nor anti-theist -- I consider both points of view
    > to
    > be a violation of the mystical dictum that we should not get specific over
    > that which we cannot understand.). Although it is still a minority, there
    > is a movement among Christians away from a rigid theism. Those who support
    > the MOQ should, I would think, be aware of and supportive of that
    > movement,
    > rather than simply denounce Christianity altogether.
    >
    > - Scott
    >
    >> Hi Chuck,
    >>
    >> On 19 Oct 2004 at 11:17, Charles Roghair wrote:
    >> You don't understand my level of animosity? I don't understand your
    >> level of ambivalence.
    >>
    >> Before long, it'll be mostly Christian pulp around here and only a
    >> fading memory of Quality.
    >>
    >> Perhaps then you'll understand Ian's indignation a bit better. And
    >> mine.
    >>
    >>
    >> msh says:
    >> I guess I just don't get the same sense of impending doom. Sam's
    >> been contributing to this list (and MF) for a long time. So have
    >> Scott and David Morey and Platt, and others who might be considered
    >> sympathetic to the religious view. The only way discussions will
    >> become one-dimensional or fade from the list is if people, pissed by
    >> one POV of Quality, freak and bail, or otherwise stop talking about
    >> Quality as they see it.
    >>
    >> Anyway, that's my take on the issue.
    >>
    >> I'd really like to hear your views in the Poetic Quality thread, if
    >> you get the inkling.
    >>
    >> Best,
    >> Mark
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