Re: MD Theism, Non-Theism, Anti-Theism, Nihilism

From: hampday@earthlink.net
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 21:49:42 BST

  • Next message: Platt Holden: "Re: MD MOQ and The Moral Society"

    Scott --

    > In the Copleston Annotations (on Ant McWatt's website):
    >
    > " The MOQ would add a fourth stage where the term "God" is completely
    > dropped as a relic of an evil social suppression of intellectual and
    Dynamic
    > freedom. The MOQ is not just atheistic in this regard. It is
    > anti-theistic. "

    Quite a revealing quote, Scott. I'm curious. Was this one of RMP's actual
    notations on the Copleston manuscript, or a more recent McWatt commentary?

    There was no "evil" motivation on the part of church authorities in working
    scripture into the symbols and practices needed to sustain their believers'
    faith. It didn't prevent theists like Eckhart, Aquinas, and Cusa from
    contributing profound observations that planted the seeds of modern
    scientific investigation.

    You see, this demonstrates what I call "throwing the babe out with the
    bathwater." The nihilists want to advance a postmodern, "scientific" notion
    of the creative source -- minus a Creator. Because they consider themselves
    "above" the spiritualism of religion, they renounce all possibility of
    belief in a supernatural source.

    This is not only negative thinking, it's nothing short of intellectual
    hypocrasy.

    Regards,
    Ham

    MOQ.ORG - http://www.moq.org
    Mail Archives:
    Aug '98 - Oct '02 - http://alt.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/
    Nov '02 Onward - http://www.venus.co.uk/hypermail/moq_discuss/summary.html
    MD Queries - horse@darkstar.uk.net

    To unsubscribe from moq_discuss follow the instructions at:
    http://www.moq.org/md/subscribe.html

    This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Thu Jul 14 2005 - 22:13:44 BST