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Littlestone
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Re: Blasphemy law abolished
Mar 10, 2008, 16:14
You are not seeing the forest for the trees.


Ahh... now that's interesting, because while one can be sure that what one can see are trees one can't always be sure that they form a forest... if you get my drift. In other words, one can appreciate the cultural facets of a religion (Gothic cathedrals for example) but it takes a leap of faith (something I'm not very good at) to extend that appreciation and believe the cathedral is the house of god :-)

Fact is, the CENTRAL element in ALL of them, going all the way back to the most primitive animism, is that there is a spirit realm, and at the pinnacle of that a central being.


Actually, I can think of one religion (Shinto) were there is no central being. There are kami and they are everywhere - in trees, rocks, springs and waterfalls. Taoism is possibly another candidate, though as with Buddhism it's not strictly a religion.
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