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Author Topic:   Educated versus Popular Religion
pink sasquatch
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Message 25 of 43 (177899)
01-17-2005 4:09 PM
Reply to: Message 14 by GreyOwl
01-13-2005 11:32 AM


Western Mysticism
In the Western religions, you don't see the belief in God vs. non-belief in God as a difference between PR and ER...
I disagree on this point. Forms of Christian Mysticism, Kabbahlism, and Sufism may retain terminology such as "God", but in a mystical context "God" doesn't necessarily mean deity so much as nebulous concepts as unity, oneness, the-indescribable - similarly, in Eastern religions terms like "Godhead" or "Buddha" can refer to a specific deity or a more general spiritual concept.
Does deity-worship ever qualify as ER?

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