[Osx-nutters] The separation of church and state.

[Chris Gehlker]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 10:14 AM, Matt Johnston wrote:

> It was a nun/teacher who told me Genesis was a story designed to
> explain the existence of the world to ignorant goat herders. Seemed
> reasonable to me while at the same time obliterating my faith, if
> indeed I had any.


What do nuns know? Genesis is, among other things, a somewhat profound  
treatise on the nature of symbolic thought and how it divorces us from  
the liberation of living in and reacting to reality. It is the Western  
version of the Maha Maya Sutra
<http://www.yalereviewofbooks.com/archive/summer03/review17.shtml.htm>

There, I have restored your faith, if indeed you had any.
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No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.
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