Theos-Talk Archives (January 2002 Message tt00415)

Dear Heretical Chuck,

How about we blow up the belief systems and find out? Maybe 
darkness and chaos, or maybe unbelieveable light, trapped therein, 
would emerge. Systems constrict, but freedom of thought might 
expand exponentially. Maybe everything is true, and false, and all 
there is left to do about it is laugh, enjoy, be.

And fear, what a marvellous devil that is. That which we love to 
hate. Might as well call it something. I always wondered what that 
term "antichrist" means? That which is not the Christ? That which 
is opposed to the Christ? Now what in creation could that be?

Fundamentalist is the other thing that puzzles me. Strikes up 
images of Bible-thumping hell fire and brimstone come to Jesus 
evangelism in my imagination, probably some movie I saw 
somewhere. But the fundamentals now, love, will, wisdom, 
knowledge, faith, hope, truth, justice, loyalty, honesty, service, 
obedience. What could be better than they? I'd follow them to the 
ends of the earth, if I knew the way. 

Adelasie 

-----Original Message-----
> From: Drpsionic@aol.com [mailto:Drpsionic@aol.com]
> Sent: Saturday, January 26, 2002 11:10 AM
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: Theos-World Seeing others as instruments of the
> devil
> 
> Paul,
> 
> You haven't lived right until you've been accused of being an
> Agent of the
> Antichrist on Xtian television.
> 
> What I find so mystifying is why our fundamentalist brethren are
> so
> incredibly afraid of inquiry. Could it be that their belief
> system is so
> inherintly weak that they fear that if any light is thrown it
> will truly
> disintegrate before their very eyes and leave them with nothing
> but darkness
> and chaos?
> 
> And, could it be that deep down they know that reality is truly
> darkness and
> chaos and all the spiritual blather and 19th century
> psuedo-Sanskrit they can
> muster won't change it?
> 
> Being an instrument of the devil isn't all that bad a thing if it
> means a willingness to ask the questions that people really don't want
> you to ask for fear it may make them face a truth that they would like
> to avoid. And being considered an instrument of the devil by those who
> are so consumed by fear is a compliment, perhaps one of the highest
> compliments that a scholar can be payed.
> 
> Chuck
>