Re: The war on faith.
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I think it has content and I think the two of you are interpreting that content differently. I would think it odd if you were claiming that the poet had no part in the creation of the message.
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I worship at the alter of Sokal. I'm not a postmodernist. Sure the poet may have had a message he was tryng to send, but my sentimental extraction and my buddies humorous one stand on equal ground ( we treat each other as equally valid beings), so in that sense the message of the poet is irrelevant "virtually useless" since what we get out of it obviously depends on what we're bringing to it.
There certainly is no reason to think any 'enlightenment' that I ( or my buddy, or his gfriend, or...) extract from it .. and it may be a biggie and life-changing is an inherent property of and targeted message from the poem.
good luck on finding somebody who arrived at a belief in a xtrian god ( sans trappings) prior to exposure to a bible-peddlar of sorts.
luckyme
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