Subj : Big fat warning, oh my!
To   : FRANK MASINGILL
From : TODD HENSON
Date : Mon Oct 23 2000 09:29 pm

>         I have not found that in my search for the truth of
> existence that religious dogmatism is a huge problem.  As a matter
> of fact as I look back upon my life and study, I think I overcame
> that without too much difficulty because the suspicion began in
> childhood.  But as to secular dogmatism, I found, to my great
> surprise, that the educational system through the universities there
> was also tremendous closure and dogmatism.   I have had to struggle
> against the freedom of what Bergson symbolized as the "elan vitale"
> or the constancy of the Aristotelian "wonder" that with Plato's nous
> is the heart center of philosophy as the deadly opponent of
> "philodoxy" (love of dogma).  Since I also do not consider the "God"
> symbol to be representative of an "existing thing" I also have been
> insulated against the mighty torrent of the "God is Dead"
> foolishness.  


If would answer the repeated questions as to what you mean by a
"nonexisting God", it might 
make it easier for people to understand you.
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