From: Michael Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Fri May 01 1998 - 06:41:02 MDT
Prof. Gomes wrote:
> Did ya know that certain believers simply concluded that god is an state of
> being... with all its presumptuos characteristics of creator, glorious,
> infinite good, infinite this or that... And we are here to reach such
> state... And walk proud and happy, with a great secret inside their
> "hearts": I am a god ( a son, an image of ), and Jesus was the first who
> understood this and "taugh it to me" ... I am a chosen of god creator, good
> father, and one day will be "one" with him...
>
> Just to understand the difficulty there is inside some of their minds...
>
This is a very extropic form of the judeo-christian meme-plex. it is also a
form that established organized religions have done their best to stamp out for
the past 2000 years. Heinlein's _Stranger in a Strange Land_ examined this
possibility.
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