From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Thu Jan 13 2005 - 13:47:18 GMT
Hi Chin,
> I know people get upset here when you speak of "Cosmic Intelligence," or
> the brain and mind separately, or the idea of a master mind at the center
> of the universe is going to upset them even more.
>
> I have to ask - What is this show of emotion all about? I've seen bikers
> who hated other gangs less than Christians are hated here. To me,
> Judeo-Christian, Islam, or Deity Zen is just as likely to hold the key as
> science or astrology, or Humanity Zen, Nature Zen, or Nature spirituality -
> or mathematics. It seems the question of mathematics being the immortal
> principle has not been settled.
Any mention of the supernatural drives secular fundamentalists crazy for
the simple reason that they must sever the people's relationship with God
in order to gain full control over them. So long as free people believe
that their basic moral rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness come from God and not from other men, attempts to remove those
rights by political means (coercion) will be resisted. Thus, socialist
planners must take every opportunity to disabuse people of their religious
beliefs. Fortunately, in the the U.S. their efforts have hardly made a
dent.
Although Pirsig is an atheist, his "naturalistic" moral structure holds
freedom to be the highest value, thus supporting and protecting the ideals
of individual life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness from those who
would alter them for the sake of some social level scheme promoted in the
name of "the public good."
Platt
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