tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020282.post110021082282522929..comments2023-10-24T04:51:33.141-07:00Comments on Ash Tree: The Surreality Based CommunityHenry Baumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09222144871856444411noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020282.post-1100548825016004812004-11-15T12:00:00.000-08:002004-11-15T12:00:00.000-08:00I wasn't talking about religion so much as a basic...I wasn't talking about religion so much as a basic sense of spirituality: there's more to what we see than what we see. At Kos they seem to think that any sense of spirituality is brain-damaged and lacks common sense. As if faith itself is wrong. Certainly, religion has been an enemy throughout history, but that doesn't mean all faith is dangerous. They made me feel like a religious nut for even raising the issue. I'd never felt so much like a red-stater.Henry Baumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09222144871856444411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020282.post-1100282040949910592004-11-12T09:54:00.000-08:002004-11-12T09:54:00.000-08:00Thanks for the comments. This was actually cross-...Thanks for the comments. This was actually cross-posted at Kos. I ran into some pretty hardline atheists who are a little too in love with the scientific method.<br /><br />http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/11/11/17652/553Henry Baumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09222144871856444411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020282.post-1100256938197982412004-11-12T02:55:00.000-08:002004-11-12T02:55:00.000-08:00well said. the paranoia just keeps spreading into ...well said. the paranoia just keeps spreading into abysmal cesspools.keedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16247048418094476365noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8020282.post-1100226450174196252004-11-11T18:27:00.000-08:002004-11-11T18:27:00.000-08:00i agree about this. but i am religious. i don't f...i agree about this. but i am religious. i don't find it a contradiction. i believe that once you boil it down and understand the message and nature of Christ, before it got perverted by our clumsiness...east and west, faith and science, are not so disparate.tequilitahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17560058128001884834noreply@blogger.com