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Sunday, January 08, 2006 Conflict Over Faith Many of you who receive this Blog are not on my Civic List. It is unfortunate that you are missing a fascinating debate on matters of faith. This is not the first time such a subject has been in the forefront of discourse within the Civic List. This round was started by my reporting on George Milman's story of the Dover School decision about ID (Intelligent Design). Ian, George, Brigit, Lyle, and now Kevin have chimed in. Whatever you faiths are we seem to have someone who is in your camp, creationist, Opus Dei, secularist, agnostic or atheist. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are even some pagans among us. Much of our discussions of faith touch on many side issues, ID, human and minority rights, defining scriptures, and definition of faith, Biblical veracity. Current books discussed have included Sam Harris's "The End of Faith", "The Sins of Scripture" by Bishop Spong and "The Bible Fraud" by Tony Bushby. There is real fear of public disclosure when one might be different from the majority. In other words, as one expressed belief, it is better not to state that you are atheist or agnostic in public. Are we not avoiding the overall issue in not recognizing that is an issue of control? This is an issue of freedom from state religion. Separation of religion and state was an issue before, during and after the creation of our republic. It continues to be a major issue today. Not only in America but also in many parts of the world. For certain it hangs heavy over all considerations in the Middle East. This is not only a question of theocracies, of religion controlling the State, but beware of the State controlling religion. Histories tell some very bad stories in either case. Those stories all bode poorly for Freedom. |
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