Re: MD quality religion

From: Jim Ledbury (jim.ledbury@dsl.pipex.com)
Date: Sun Mar 21 2004 - 15:31:46 GMT

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    Maybe we ought to do a Big Brother and vote a religion out of the house
    until we have a winner ;-)

    Might take too long though.

    ATB
    Jim

    Wim Nusselder wrote:

    >Dear MoQists interested in an 'Idols'-like competition between religions,
    >
    >Platt presented (13 Mar 2004 08:59:41 -0500) 'pursuing Dynamic Quality by
    >creating and contemplating art as well as by pursuing beauty in all my
    >endeavors' as best religion.
    >I have nominated Quakerism and will present it in due course.
    >Sam more or less promised 21 Mar 2004 11:57:35 -0000 to make the case for (I
    >guess) Anglicanism as soon as his hectic life give's him a chance to do so.
    >
    >David B. 20 Mar 2004 14:56:56 -0700 declined to nominate a non-Western
    >religion, because -being a Western person- that would imply (in Jung's
    >words) theft.
    >That's fine, I'd say: as nominators we also need an audience, people who (in
    >the 'Idols' model) decide by voting which religion wins the contest.
    >
    >I presented 12 Mar 2004 08:30:40 +0100 a proposal for the format of the
    >contest. The first step was:
    >'someone starts presenting a religion as soon as we think that enough people
    >on this list may be interested to present their favourite religion as
    >potential "idol" and to vote on it.'
    >
    >I don't think 3 nominators and 1 non-nominating voter is enough yet. WHO
    >ELSE WANTS TO PARTICIPATE in one role or the other?
    >
    >Maybe Joe or Don (drose) might want to nominate (AND seriously present)
    >Catholicism (having more or less identified themselves as followers)?
    >Don (drose), did you already invite the Mormon and the evangelical you wrote
    >about 10 Mar 2004 19:45:48 -0500?
    >Leland, Matt P., Jon, David M., Steve P., Jim, Steve (arborealman), Matt K.
    >and others lurking in this thread until now: Would you be willing to
    >act -with David B.- as audience/voters/jury?
    >
    >With friendly greetings,
    >
    >Wim
    >
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