A while back, I read a book by a contemporary theologian whose initial premise was: The story of the struggle between Good and Evil is a human universal.
And that's quite simply not true.
One certainly seems to see this story everywhere. Go to a Hollywood movie, pick up a popular novel: good guys vs. bad guys. Worse: we see it in our own heads. Matriarchy good, patriarchy bad. Abrahamics bad, paganisms good.
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David, my heart beats faster when I hear words like "teleological" and "deontological." (How pathetic is *that*?) I surely do love -
I often do the same thing! None the less, it's a good conversation to have and thinking about how we view our ethics is very impo -
Thanks David: you're absolutely right about the overstated conclusion. One of my besetting flaws as a writer is a tendency to get
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I agree that non-dualistic thinking is preferred to dualistic thought. We certainly live in a dualistic culture here in the USA.
