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Author Topic:   Why prefer the Biblical creation account over those of other religions?
iceage 
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Message 7 of 146 (368117)
12-07-2006 1:28 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Dr Adequate
12-05-2006 11:05 AM


Acoma Myth
I particularly liked the Acoma creation story. The passage that caught my attention was:
Acoma Creation Story writes:
Tsichtinako replied, "I did not make you. Your father, Uchtsiti made you, and it is he who has made the world, the sun which you have seen, the sky, and many other things which you will see. But Uchtsiti says the world is not yet completed, not yet satisfactory, as he wants it. This is the reason he has made you. You will rule and bring to life the rest of the things he has given you in the baskets."
The message that humans, or self-aware intelligent life, are to bring into manifestation the full creation is an interesting one. That we are partners in the flowering of the universe.
This could be construed as a pro-scientific religious ideology and is positive and goal oriented instead of condemning. Also find it more inspiring than the misogynist concept that women in particular are responsible for mankind's deception and therefore ya all and the whole of creation are fallen.

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iceage 
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Message 11 of 146 (397226)
04-25-2007 1:30 AM
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02-02-2007 5:09 AM


Re: Acoma Myth
Doddy I have to admit that I had to look up "extropians, singularitarians and posthumanists".
Bottom line is that if you are going to go all the effort to convince yourself that some obvious myth is reality why not pick a positive one

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