Comments on: Losing Their Religion? http://www.republicoft.com/2007/06/24/losing-their-religion/ Black. Gay. Father. Vegetarian. Buddhist. Liberal. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:47:01 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Delany Dean http://www.republicoft.com/2007/06/24/losing-their-religion/comment-page-1/#comment-155527 Delany Dean Wed, 18 Jul 2007 13:58:01 +0000 http://www.republicoft.com/2007/06/24/losing-their-religion/#comment-155527 Excellent post! You do a great job of making explicit the challenges, the uphill battle, of fitting Christianity into a contemporary world-view. Interestingly, the way around that battle is to skip it altogether and enter/remain on the path of the mystics, which is the same path, I believe, for Buddhist or Christian or Islamic or any other brand of mystic, and always has been so. In modern times, the Jesuit, Teilhard de Chardin is a wonderful example, and in earlier eras in Christianity there were, of course, many, as well. They did not waste time parsing dogma, doctrine, or canon law. They went straight to the heart of the matter, to Big Mind. I will be publishing excerpts of your wonderful post on my own blog, crimlawdoc.blogspot.com, and have put a link to your blog, on mine. Excellent post! You do a great job of making explicit the challenges, the uphill battle, of fitting Christianity into a contemporary world-view. Interestingly, the way around that battle is to skip it altogether and enter/remain on the path of the mystics, which is the same path, I believe, for Buddhist or Christian or Islamic or any other brand of mystic, and always has been so. In modern times, the Jesuit, Teilhard de Chardin is a wonderful example, and in earlier eras in Christianity there were, of course, many, as well. They did not waste time parsing dogma, doctrine, or canon law. They went straight to the heart of the matter, to Big Mind.

I will be publishing excerpts of your wonderful post on my own blog, crimlawdoc.blogspot.com, and have put a link to your blog, on mine.

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