Saturday, October 04, 2003
Joseph Campbell said: That if
you get stuck on the local inflection of a religious idea (like Yehweh, the
Christian god with white beard, the Dancing Shiva, fat Buddha, etc),
that you have missed the whole point......that the idea of god is ineffable and
transcendent of anything you can name or describe. To "worship" the
local inflection is idolatrous.
you get stuck on the local inflection of a religious idea (like Yehweh, the
Christian god with white beard, the Dancing Shiva, fat Buddha, etc),
that you have missed the whole point......that the idea of god is ineffable and
transcendent of anything you can name or describe. To "worship" the
local inflection is idolatrous.
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