[Vision2020] Persecution is Part of Christianity

[Michael]

"It is impossible for there to be a person with no religion (i.e. without
any kind of relationship to the world) as it is for there to be a person
without a heart. He may not know that he has a religion, just as a person
may not know that he has a heart, but it is no more possible for a person to
exist without a religion than without a heart. (Leo Tolstoy, 1879)"

 

Gary,

 

This is a nice quote. However, if I were to qualify Tolstoy's point, I would
say that there are a lot of people out there who hardly qualify as having "a
heart," if we take the usage of this phrase in its more normal meaning in
contexts like this. There are some who are just vain cynics, who have little
sympathy for others and little taste for transcendence.  Some find
discussions about sociology, theology, and politics to be mere
entertainment, not taking the discourse seriously, nor caring at all for
whom they dialog with.  So I would want to group folks into four groups:
theist with heart, theist without heart, non-theist with heart, non-theist
without heart.  However, given your interpretation of this nice passage from
Tolstoy, if everyman is religious, what kind of religion are you?

 

Thank you

Michael Metzler 

www.poohsthink.com <http://www.poohsthink.com/>  

 

 

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