Re: thoughts on Jesus


"Vernon Balbert" <vbalbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 5/16/2008 4:22 AM, alwaysaskingquestions went clickity clack on the
keyboard and produced this interesting bit of text:
"Ilas" <nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"John Wilkins" <j.wilkins1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If 3, then one wonders at the necessity for the gap itself. Why, for
example, think there is a "soul" if "soul" is never investigable?
I don't follow your logic there, the belief is addressing the gap, not
creating the gap. People talk about the "soul" as an expression for
things we cannot otherwise explain, if we stop talking about the soul
that does not eliminate those things our wonderment at what causes
them.
You know as well as I do that the soul means something very different to
most Christians. It's supposed to be that indefinable part of you that
ascends to heaven after death (or descends to hell),

It is more than that:

"The soul, according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is
the
self-aware essence unique to a particular living being. In these
traditions
the soul is thought to incorporate the inner essence of each living
being,
and to be the true basis for sapience, rather than the brain or any other
material or natural part of the biological organism"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul

and as such it is
religion creating the gap.

So you reckon that if there were no religion then Man would not wonder
where
his sapience comes from?

Religion was created primarily for this reason.

A bit of explanation would be useful about exactly *how* Man, unique among
species, created religion.

[rest snipped pending that first step]


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