Exclusivity of belief
Renounce and turn away from evilTo my perception, only absolute cults and specific sects of evangelical, monotheistic religions seem to require this degree of exclusivity within their belief...
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Can you say repressed...I just finished reading Diamant's Red Tent and have been revisiting Campbell lately in an attempt to understand a bit of the social evolution of ancient cultures of the middle...
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I recieved a strong impression, from the website link that Altis provided, that the people who's strictures were listed on that site would do well to be back in the deep desert. I'm not attempting to...
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But what is the point of being in a deep desert? The primary focus, here, is to communicate, to share at all costs with others that deep unhappiness at the way things are [perceived] -- and to help...
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BUT, in the desert phase, at least, evangelism was not on the cards, even communication -at least, not in the early development of the semitic God, which is a product as much of ritual as any deep...
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As Mac said, or at least implied, the incredibley strict exclusivity expressed at the website is simply not workable when more than an absolute minimum of outside cultural or social influence is...
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Mmm ...Since we tend to value most what we have worked/suffered most to achieve (and what, in this context, becomes a primary logic behind initiation rites?), taking the message to the deep desert...
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Jilz,Your explanation is admirable and can be supported in other clashes between urban/nomadic cultures, but only in the land between the nile and euphrates does the outcome become so sever, so...
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