TRTR(1) Eye Goddesses Wearing Dipthongs

[David Morris]

I think "turf dispute" is correct, but the turf in question is the
mind/reason of the congregant.  Orwell captured its essence with the
concept of "doublespeak."

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Michael Bailey
<michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've always been puzzled by why they thought that mattered so much.
> Not quite enough to read up on it, but puzzled.
> I mean, you're positing a tripartite Godhead, right?
> What practical implications does that have? What religious implications, even?
>
> I mean, you've already discarded empirical artihmetic - 3 equal to one?
> So by saying that they are the same substance, are you discarding the
> same/different distinction as well?
>
> Personally I don't mind strong assertions that there must be some
> truth higher than science.  But if you discard the scientific method,
> how to judge between the non-scientific assertions becomes
> problematic, doesn't it?
>
> leading me to wonder if it wasn't simply a turf dispute...
>
> And for a religion founded on God being love, for the Church to
> undergo a schism based on these non-checkable distinctions seems
> contradictory to the spirit of the larger endeavour...
>