The Blind Men - was Re: (Ron) Natural Man

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<snip me pointing out that not all spiritual people are Yahwists - let alone
catholics of course) 

>RON

>  Well, obviously we can't all be right. Either one of us has the 

>correct understanding and all the rest are simply wrong, or we are all 

>wrong. I, of course, believe I am right or I would change my beliefs. To 

ACHILLES
I would suggest that you consider the possibility that the situation is more
complex than simply one group is right and the rest are wrong. It may be
that every group has some grasp of truth, mixed with human error. 

To comprehend what I mean by this, simply think of the parable of the blind
men and the elephant.

To me the most offensive and dangerous component of all "fundamentalist"
doctrines is this insistence on binary logic. It causes a certain conceptual
blindness. The historical consequences have been catastrophic, over and over
again. All the various holy wars and inquisitions, and the atrocities which
go along with them, are made possible by this unwarranted assumption that
one side ("my side") is absolutely right and the other side is absolutely
wrong. 

You have made statements before as to the inability of our - "puny human
minds" I believe was the phrase you used - to comprehend the nature of god.
But if this argument is relevant at all it must be relevant to all sides.
Including your own. 

"...we are not simply contending in order that my view or that
of yours may prevail, but I presume we ought both of us to be
fighting for the truth..."
from Philebus, the Dialogues of Plato 

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