ATD re light & evil

[Paul Mackin]

On Jan 4, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Steven wrote:

> 	Exactly.  I see how my phrase 'essential nature' may have raised  
> the religious hackles of most of those present -- I didn't mean  
> to.  Evil is simply a human characteristic, a human capacity...  
> imo.  You don't need to drag in Theo to say as much.

My hackles do I guess tend to rise up to a limited extent with the   
mention of this kind of stuff.  Which does seem closely akin to  
religion--though of a mainly non-transcendental variety.  Pop  
psychology combined with the Sermon on the Mount. More "Natural" that  
"Supernatural." Mainly controllable by the Subject. The Object is  
less essential. Horizontal religion as opposed to Vertical, though a  
"higher power" can be included, as in the Twelve Steps.  Very  
pragmatic and American. Often it apparently works.



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> On Jan 4, 2007, at 9:04 AM, David Morris wrote:
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>> It's also a bit like Christian Science:  There's no such thing as
>> sickness.
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> Steven
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