I went out of the way to mention the minimum impact thing because I had visions of my words being correlated with human sacrifices, etc. Eck. To me, 'anything goes' is impalpable as 'only a narrow dogma goes'. Call it a desire for mutual spiritual manners. You know, that's perhaps what this entire conversation is about.
I like your use of the term "symbol sets". I'll borrow that if you don't mind!
The other angle that I didn't talk about is the gaining and maintaining of political power via religious debate and entrenchment. Personal relationships with the Divine mean very little in this arena. That would be fine fodder for another article (grin).
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Date: 2007-05-09 06:54 pm (UTC)I like your use of the term "symbol sets". I'll borrow that if you don't mind!
The other angle that I didn't talk about is the gaining and maintaining of political power via religious debate and entrenchment. Personal relationships with the Divine mean very little in this arena. That would be fine fodder for another article (grin).