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Originally Posted by levite
I have never heard this expression before: I believe I get your gist, given the context, but I am intrigued-- is this your turn of phrase, or does it come from another writer? If I understand it correctly, I think it is a fairly felicitous phrasing.
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All me. Glad you like.
I'm not being entirely clear, I don't think. I'm not hypothesizing anything in particular about spiritual experience. I've had them, I'm for them, they're powerful and empowering and life-bringing things.
I'm saying that I can see why the fundamentalist, literalist, "my beliefs are fact"-ist faction would be having a shit fit, given the sorts of things science is poking its nose into these days.
The real thing I don't understand about fundamentalism is why a person would put your faith on such a tenuous foundation as "fact". Facts change as our understanding of the world changes. Faith is powerful and unshakable.