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- From: madhaus@netcom.com (Maddi Hausmann)
- Newsgroups: alt.atheism
- Subject: Re: Ok, truce?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.220213.7492@netcom.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 22:02:13 GMT
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- darice@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Fred Rice) writes: >
- 910773f@axe.acadiau.ca (HEATHER LEE FYFFE) writes: >>
- >
- >>I believe in that truth-type #1 somebody described. I will not forcibly
- >>state that the truth as I believe it is undoubtedly that Truth. However,
- >>that does not change the fact that there _can_ only be one Truth, by its
- >>very nature, whatever it is. If the Truth is that there are many little
- >>truths, then that is still the Truth.
- >
- >One viewpoint is the "perennial philosophy", i.e. that there is one
- >primordial Truth which every religion contains. The deeper one
- >understands each religion, the more one sees the similarities in the
- >essences of each religion.
-
- Joseph Campbell also discusses this in his works (I'm reading
- the one about Myth that came from the PBS discussions with
- Bill Moyers). Campbell had a Jungian view of religion that I
- agree with; that the search for the Godhead is really a search
- for one's inner spirit, and that most creation stories are
- parables of this becoming self-aware. Campbell shows numerous
- instances of commanality among religions and its creation
- stories. Really fascinating.
-
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