Jimbo wrote in message ...
>>"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>news:kzJZ8.37707$Iu6.2150051 at bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...>>>> Jimbo wrote in message ...
>> >
>> >"Kenneth Collins" <k.p.collins at worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>> >news:4XGZ8.109814$UT.7020136 at bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net...>> >
>> ><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".
>What specific "fundamentalist **MISinterpretations**" are you referring
to?
k. p. collins
