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Sorry, but I cannot work out who wrote this.
However, I agree entirely. What is being described ARE traditions. And as
an individual discussing faith with many various groups over the years I
am struck by the strong adherence to traditions that divide us one from
another.
An adherence that has led us to war and worse. For why? Is there something
about humankind that makes us vulnerable to what I rationalise as the
exercise of untold power over families, tribes, and nations, that
overcomes rational thought about why it is that we are prepared to condemn
someone who "Is not one of us".
I can understand an individual undertaking some particular task
voluntarily, or believing some particular doctrine as a matter of personal
acceptance and discipline. And to pick out just one issue amongst many, I
have had debate with both Jewish, and Muslim friends on things like
circumcision.
To my mind there is no logical justification for what to me is mutilation.
Yes I have, I think, heard ALL the rationalisations about this brutal act.
But what I can never find courage to condemn is the choice of some to
undertake it as a matter of obedience to what they fervently believe they
are bidden to do.
For me God is a logical caring entity. Anything, particularly instructions
that have come down to us, for me, has had a logical reason. AT THE TIME.
That time MAY have passed. I am sure you can imagine the debates had with
others about unchangeability.
I have, I think, mentioned in an earlier post about my finding it easier
to understand WHAT IS MEANT, even when I did not fully understand what was
actually said or written. Or what others SAID was said or written.
And for me this discussion of divine belief is critical to how we organise
the means to create and share wealth. The victory of the economists in the
1930s concerning the relationship of morality to economics is unacceptable.
I just do not see how they got away with it :-(((
Ken.
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