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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It's a funny thing about faith. Either you have it or you don't. There is (unusally) no convincing those who have it to reject it, and likewise for those who disdain it to understand and to accept it.
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Thanks for your response. I don't mean to ridicule your experience. Your story is fascinating. I hope it is what you believe it to be. It is a comforting thought. But, why wouldn't god intervene before every tragedy?
I'm not against studying religion. I do have trouble with people taking religious dogma literally.
How can anything be supernatural?
The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be. - Carl Sagan
I like what Joseph Campbell has to say:
God is a metaphor for that which trancends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
-- Joseph Campbell
Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other people's myths, not those of your own religion, because you tend to interpret your own religion in terms of facts -- but if you read the other ones, you begin to get the message. Myth helps you to put your mind in touch with this experience of being alive. Myth tells you what the experience is.
-- Joseph Campbell