From: David Buchanan (DBuchanan@ClassicalRadio.org)
Date: Sun May 02 2004 - 20:29:00 BST
Mark said to dmb:
I agree with you that a religion of the future would do well to concentrate
on it's very source, but then, it would become a mystic religion? In this
sense, its quite a bit different from anything by which current religious
institutions shape themselves?
dmb replies:
Yes. I think the churches of today fail as windows to DQ and instead serve a
strictly social function. The religions of the future, one might hope, will
be very different indeed if they are mystical. They will serve our spiritual
needs, not just our social needs. This is the heart and soul of religion,
and its precisely what's missing from "mere christianity". Just in case
you're not sick of Wilber yet...
When I was a youngster, and being the mad scientist type, I used to collect
insects. Central to this endeavor was the killing jar. You take an empty
mayonnaise jar, put lethal carbon tetrachloride on cotton balls, and place
them in the bottom of the jar. You then drop the insect - moth, butterfly,
whatnot - into the jar, and it quickly dies, but without being outwardly
disfigured. You then mount it, study it, and display it.
Academic religion is the killing jar of Spirit.
Thanks.
dmb
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