[Buddha-l] g-d

[jkirk]

The Nicene cementing of creed is what Max Weber called the
"routinization of charisma," aka the end of innovation,
reformation (until Luther, and then his movement got routinized),
exploration. State powers take over religion and collaborate in
(or stand aside in) enforcing punishments for heresy.

When was it that some Pope or authority decided that Catholics
shouldn't read scripture?
Reminds me of Muslims around the world memorizing the Koran
without understanding what it says; or like when I was in Laos,
the tour provided a Laotian feast courtesy of a family the owner
knows. It included building a circular offering of foods flowers
and grains, a ritual asking blessings on the world and us, that
involved chanting. When I asked if they were chanting in Pali,
the family head who was running the ritual said he didn't know,
probably not,  but that what he was chanting was traditional. 

JK

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[mailto:buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Curt
Steinmetz
Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 11:17 PM
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] g-d

Richard Hanson points out in his "Studies in Christian Antiquity"
that the imposition of the Nicene Creed in 381 as the only
legally allowed religious point of view "reduce[d] the meanings
of the word "God" [well, actually, the Greek "ho theos" and the
Latin "deus", to be precise] from a very large selection of
alternatives to one only." The result, according to Hanson, is
that today when people in the West uses the word God, whether
they understand this or not (and in the vast majority of cases
they do not), they mean "the one, sole exclusive God [of the
Nicene Creed] and nothing else" [pp 243-4].

Curt

Weng-Fai Wong wrote:
> Did this Strand guy read Dawkins' "The God Delusion"?
>
> W.F. Wong
>
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: buddha-l-bounces at mailman.swcp.com [mailto:buddha-l- 
>> bounces at mailman.swcp.com] On Behalf Of Gary Gach
>> Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 10:36 AM
>> To: buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com
>> Subject: [Buddha-l] g-d
>>
>> Curt, you might enjoy dipping into Clark Strand's new book
from 
>> Doubleday, on God for people who don't believe in G0d (sort of
like 
>> koans from the
>> Bible) - and he also is moderating web discussion on this
(which Url 
>> i'll find this week for you if you like).
>>
>> Gary Gach
>> http://www.redroom.com/author/gary-g-gach
>> http://blogs.psychologytoday.com/blog/where-buddha-meets-freud
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