"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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>> Jimbo wrote in message ...
> >
> >"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
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> ><snipped>
> >
> >> in this actuality, there's the necessity to explore the larger stuff.
> >which,
> >> with respect to the Word of Christ, is what i do.
> >>
> >> "fundamentalist' interpretations get-into-trouble because they 'stop at
> >the
> >> interface'.
> >>
> >> often, with Tragic results with respect to which most folks are
familiar.
> >
> >
> >What specific "Tragic results" as a result of "fundamentalist'
> >interpretations" are you referring to?
>> 'segregation', 'apartheid', lynching, 'religious' warfare [such as that
> which is being waged against the U. S.], the Troubles in Northern Ireland,
> the threat of 'nuclear' war in South Asia, in general, all 'us vs. them'
> stuff.
>> if all of History is searched, the list is very-long.
>> by 'fundamentalism', i mean exactly that which i discussed in the portions
> of my prior post that you 'erased'.
>> seeing the 'interface' and 'thinking' that it's 'everything.
>> it's not.
>> it never is.
>> what is, at least with respect to this or that instance of 'language [say
a
> 'sentence'], is the larger stuff that is what underpins 'language'.
>> Tragedy happens when folks establish 'rules' ['laws', 'treaties',
> 'agreements', etc.], and, then, 'forget' about the larger stuff in order
to
> adhere to the 'letter of the law'.
>> in such, reality is forsaken, while mere words, infinitely-replaceable,
are
> 'elevated' to the status of 'everything'.
>> Tragedy happens because of the forsaking of reality that's inherent.
>
I think fundamentalist **MISinterpretations** are responsible for "Tragic
results".
