Re: Mountains


"Jo Schaper" <joschapern4ospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> jonathan wrote:
>>
>> In this context both science and religion should be studied equally.
>> And Jo, your comments indicate that religious philosophy
>> is pretty much uncharted territory for you.
>
> Oh my lord...
>
>>No offense, but
>> the Vatican, for example, is a home to philosophical thought
>> that involves centuries of debate among some of the greatest
>> thinkers this planet has produced. These philosophies are not
>> ignorant or dismissive of science at all, quite the opposite, but
>> attempt
>> to extend concepts where science ends.
>
> I guess you know what the word "anathema" means, then.
> So I guess you've read Aquinas' Summa Theologica, then? I don't read
> Latin, but I read an English translation when I was about 15. How about
> Augustine's City of God? (Not the much racier Confessions)? John Newman?
> Teresa of Avila? Therese of Lisieux? St. John of the Cross? Teilhard de
> Chardin? Abbe Breuil? The Cloud of Unknowing? Thomas Merton? Ignatius
> Loyola? Thomas A Kempis? Anselm? Donus Scotus? Meister Eckhardt? Julian
> of Norwich or Hildegard of Bingen? Martin Luther? Martin Buber? G.K.
> Chesterton? C.S. Lewis (and not just Narnia)? Francis of Assisi? Francis
> De Sales? Fulton Sheen? Catherine of Siena? The now excommunicated but
> still a theologian Matthew Fox? George Fox? Galileo's letters? Mary Baker
> Eddy? Jonathan (sinners in the hands of an angry God) Edwards? The Book
> of Mormon? The Bhagavad-Gita? The politico-religious ruminations of
> Franklin, Jefferson, Madison and Adams? Aleister Crowley? Robert Graves'
> The White Goddess, and King Jesus? Joseph Campbell's books on
> "Mythology"? Bullfinch's Mythology? Parts of the Eddas and skalds? John
> Neidhardt's Black Elk Speaks? The Dead Sea Scrolls? The Nag Hammadi
> Library? Over 800 years of at least 6 Bible translations, starting in Old
> English? The 'Lost' and/or suppressed books of the Bible? Parts of the
> Kabbalah? The Qu'ran?
>
> That's a good reading list to start with. When you are finished with
> that, come back, jonathan, and I'll give you the rest of the list on the
> literary side--starting with Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven and The
> Story of Adam and Eve, both by Mark Twain.
>
> Until then, I bid you adieu in this thread.
>
> Jo

That should keep him busy for a while.


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