Re: bow out?

["Privateers" <Privateers@privateers.org>]

Bow in Lad never let them say "I have failed to keep the faith"

Sinclair
----- Original Message -----
From: John S. Quarterman <jsq@mids.org>
To: <sinclair@jump.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: bow out?


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> At 22:10 26/05/99 -0600, you wrote:
> >Laurel, John,
> >
> >In view of the current flap re those offended by religious/ spiritual
> >beliefs, where it seems so minor to me it does not to others ...I would
not
> >be offended if you ask me to quietly bow out. If anyone gets far enough
into
> >my stuff I see they could have a whole lot of heart-burn. I can
personally
> >handle a few offended persons but I absolutely do not wish to be an
> >embarrassment to the Clan at large or to you folks and your project.
> >
> >Blessings Be...
> >William
> >
> Bill,
>
> Suggest a separate point of contact for spiritual matters (which we all
> need) as opposed to
> religious dogma.
>
> Your views are light years ahead of simple souls like ourselves who may
> have 'gut' feelings
> about our broader spiritual relationship with the planet a.k.a the
Universe
> but who are unable
> (or unwilling) to grasp the reality of our inter-dependence  with all
> living things; our past
> existences or our future lives.
>
> Religion can be divisive except in its historical context when it can be
> wholly relevant because of its unfettered power and undue influence on the
> lives of poor mortals who had to
> bow the head, bend the knee or perish.  The World is strewn with corpses
in
> the defence
> of this or that religion.
>
> We Sinclairs always believed that God and Nature was ONE.  That was the
> message which Earl William Sinclair left when he built Rosslyn Chapel and
> it is a message which we ignore
> at our peril.
>
> Niven
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