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Mad Priest writes of the recent FoCA gathering:
"…the elephant in the room continues to loom large at these schismatic conventions. I know for a fact that Burnham, Broadhurst and Newton each have more gay friends than I have. The fact that these gay friends will sacrifice their integrity, self-fulfillment and happiness just to keep the "monstrous regiment of women" down is one of the most bizarre and hypocritical episodes in the history of English Anglo-Catholicism."
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The thought of ‘Richard Dawkins as a great intellectual’ somewhat confuses me but may be that’s for another post, as someone who bought a copy of The God Delusion and has onlt read 20 pages I should probably stay silent on the score for now anyway. Also doe’s the common man/woman has ‘an innate appetite for what we call the religious experience’ or is their knowledge for answers and truth more what they yearn for, or am I looking into this too deeply? or bing cynical of Lawson’s writing.
You see I have an issue and that is that I view religion and christianity as two different things…I beleive that someone can be religious without being a christian and have that whole Saul on the road to Damascus expereince.
One thing I do believe though that God has never and will never go anywhere.
Sorry if this is long and confusing, I an just trying to understand more.
God has NEVER gone away, despite the best protestations of the securlarists, athiests and humanists.
Experience in my own life amply demonstrates this – Ignore him for 25 years, get in real trouble when relying on your own strength is not enough, and he says loud and clear, I am Here – just listen and all will be well.
He is back in my life in a major way which has change my whole outlook and perspective!
God never went away – we just looked away.
Just because large numbers of people are becoming enthusiastic about the archaisms of the religions founded long ago in the child-hood of Humankind does not mean that Real God is back.
Plus almost everything described as “religion” in the book is just an extension of the TV created consumer mind that now rules the world.
Please check out the unique criticisms of what is usually called religion via these essays.
http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheon/truth-religion.aspx