(urth) Religious writers and audiences

[brunians at brunians.org]

John, I am seriously well impressed.

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> John
>
> I'm curious about those "ultra vires views." Do you have an example in
> mind?
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> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:46:05 -0400
> From: John Watkins <john.watkins04 at gmail.com>
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> The Latin root is "sanus."  I suspect that it and "salus" derive from a
> common P.I.E. root, as they were practically synonyms in ancient Rome.
> "Sanus," in ancient Latin, had roughly the meaning of our phrase "sound in
> mind and body."
>
> Atheism is a "religion" is what is meant by "religion" is a keystone or
> foundational belief or set of beliefs, not subject to
> falsification, enabling the mind to order and interpret the universe.
> Some
> people like this definition of religion; to me it seems jury-rigged to
> incorporate secular metaphysical positions in order to artificially class
> them as the same sort of thing as mystic or traditionally religious
> metaphysical positions.  I think the nature of the thing the believer
> believes about the universe is different enough in kind from the nature of
> the thing the unbeliever believes about the universe to warrant separate
> categories.  But I also think it's a little misleading to suggest that the
> religious believer and only the religious believer has, as it were, ultra
> vires views about the nature of the universe.
> On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 1:37 PM, <brunians at brunians.org> wrote:
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