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 %ANTHROPOLOGIST CONTRST CULTURE GEOGRAPHY GOD TALK 050215
%EXCLUSIVE SUPERIOR RELIGIOUS POLITICAL DOMINANTION 050215
%LEADER SYSTEMS ANALYSIS DESCRIBE NATURAL LAWS GOOD 050215
%STAGES GROWTH CHANGE LEARNING TRANSITS METAMORPHIS 050215
 %LITERAL INTERPRET OBJECTIVE EVENT RELATION REFLEX 050215
%SPIRIT CONFLICT ATTACK BATTLE WARS WEAPONS DESTROY 050215
      
           Many   anthropologists   who   have   visited    many
      contrasting  cultures  can report that the way people talk
      about  God,  creation,  ultimate spiritual  realities  and
      values differs substantially between  cultures.  Does such
      diversity in God-Talk  (  theology  ) indicate that God is
      actually different in different geographic parts of Space-
      Ship-Earth?     Do changes in God-Talk ( theology ) during
      the passage of time indicate that God is actually changing
      with  the  passage of time?    Such  changes  most  likely
      reflect differences between cultures in different parts of
      Space-Ship-Earth  and/or  at  different moments  in  time;
      i.e., at different points the Space-Time-Continuum.
      
           Why is it then, that religious people and theologians
      have engaged in conflicts and wars over the nature of  God
      and   right  God-Talk  (theology)?     They  usually   are
      ostensibly  in  conflict over the nature of God, with each
      side  certain  that their supporters  are  CERTAINLY-RIGHT
      about  the nature of God ---  even though they cannot  say
      very clearly  just why they are right;  and why the others
      are wrong.   They rarely offer any  evidence which clearly
      transcends   geographic-location-and-time;    e.g.,     as
      physicists and chemists in different times and  geographic
      places do.   Religious people usually offer evidence which
      is clearly rooted in the past of their particular historic
      and cultural traditions; e.g., in ancient scriptures.
      
           Might  such conflicts and wars reveal more about  the
      natures of those who conceive-their-gods;  than about  the
      nature  of  God?    What are the natures of the  following
      kinds  of  people  in  light of what kinds  of  gods  they
      conceive?
      
       1.  Domineering people?
       2.  Believers in the Myth of Redemptive Violence?
       3.  Addicts and their Codependent Supporters?
       4.  Players in Collusive Games of Mutual Self Deception?
       5.  Supporters of Military-Industrial-Complexes?
       6.  Concentrators of economic wealth?
       7.  Concentrators of possessable wealth?
       8.  Concentrators of political/religious influence?
       9.  Research exact scientists?
      10.  Scientific-Engineers?
      
                               (c) 2004 by Paul A. Smith in
                            "Search for Honesty and Integrity"
                          (On Being Yourself Whole and Healthy)
      
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