Re: [pf] Re:Christianity/ black and white

by Bill Ellis

07 December 2000 20:31 UTC

Nan,
IMHO, the laws of nature are the laws by which we must live.
For humanity the most basic need is to "belong", to care and be cared for.
that is to love (agape). That even overrides the need for physical
sustainance.
For humans there is no force more powerful that love.
Human love is not powerful enough to overcome the law of gravity and other
laws of nature.  So we must also love "the grand and mysterious cosmos" and
Gaia (the Earth and all its living beings).

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>From: Nan Hildreth <nan.hildreth@pdq.net>
> I like your credo.   Do you think there's a force more powerful than our
> love for each other and for the "grand and mysterious cosmos"?
>
> Nan
>
> At 03:30 PM 12/6/00 -0800, Bill Ellis wrote:
> <snip>
>>IMHO like Einstein I accept no personal god or formal religion.  I believe
>>in God the Cosmos and the Reveleation of Science.  The grand and mysterious
>>Cosmos fills oben minds with awe and wonder.  The more deeply one searches
>>for the truth the more wonderous in appears.  All of God's creations are
>>wonderous and worthy of our highest respect, honor and love.  "Belonging" to
>>respecting, caring for and being cared for by God's creations gives each of
>>us the responsibility to advance our own well being by advancing the well
>>being of all.  That moral code, some thime called the Golden Rule, "love thy
>>neighbor as thyself," is revealed to us by God the Cosmos by the science it
>>lets us discover.
>>
>>There is no black and white only a beautiful, mysterious, awe inspiring,
>>rainbow.
>
>
>
> Nan Hildreth, Houston  713-864-7108
> Nan.Hildreth@pdq.net
>
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> deal with it, all of our societal problems will get progressively worse.
> Above all else, we will never deal with it until we realize it is not a
> problem at all but an unbelievable opportunity.
>
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