Theos-Talk Archives (January 1997 Message tl00200)

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> From: Dr. A.M.Bain <guru@nellie2.demon.co.uk>
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> In message <199701082015.PAA14255@leo.vsla.edu>, "K. Paul Johnson"
> <pjohnson@leo.vsla.edu> writes
> >And then, in this service in the old
> >home town church I'd shunned for most of my life, I *got it* in
> >a way that had eluded me before.  Partly it may have been the
> >minister's eloquence, but mostly my own attitude had changed.
> >What became so abundantly clear is that this experience was
> >really not at all about some dogma concerning the death of
> >Jesus and its effects on our own route to heaven.  It was
> >quite transparently a joyous celebration of the universal
> >siblinghood of humanity as reflected in that microcosm.
> 
> As a very EX-bishop, I follow your thought very well.  Deep study of
> relgion and theology led me to dump Jesus and the HE-God.
> Experimentation showed, however, that the communion, if properly done,
> works very well without them ...

As I understand (or remember it), it also worked quite well for the
priestesses
of Isis, way before that Jesus guy you dumped and of course, with the
help of a She-god, Isis.

-AEB




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