The fetish word of authority is a fear-inspiring doctrine, the most terrible of all tyrants which enslave men. A doctrinal fetish will lead people to betray themselves into the clutches of bigotry, fanaticism, superstition, intolerance, and the most atrocious of barbarous cruelties. —The Urantia Papers IT’S A QUAINT BUT POPULAR NOTION for some Americans to say they hate the idea …
Anyone who hasn’t noticed the rabid up-tick in the perceived toxic ties between the presidential candidates and their religious affiliations gets a sincere “get well soon,” because you have to be in some kind of coma. The only one who appears to have escaped the holy vetting is Mrs Clinton, which may speak more to the fact she has no …
The emerging mantra of the secular man-in-the-street is that ALL religious views are dangerous, not just the extreme ones. The supposedly enlightened-by-science secular tools of modern arrogance and stupidity, are a lethal brew every bit as backward as antiquated fundamentalist religion. The arrogant assumptions of secular science and subsequently the thoughtless secularism of the man in the street pretend …
Evolved religion rests wholly on faith. Revelation has the additional assurance of an expanded presentation of the truths of divinity and reality, and the still more valuable testimony of the actual experience which accumulates in consequence of the practical working union of the faith of evolution and the truth of revelation.
IN THE NORMAL CIRCUMSTANCES of a more typical evolutionary world, what is related here would be nothing you hadn’t already heard before, much less, controversial. But our world is anything but normal. Here, on our world, there is more or less abject confusion and ignorance of true cosmology— the ways and means of a universe of Spirit. As it is, …
