[SynchroBlog] September 17th Synchroblog

[Kai]

Wow, so could those who want to have an interfaith syncho take the
conversation to a dedicated forum? This is a lot posts to go through for
those of us who are not interested. If this request is out of line, I
apologize. Just tell me so. I am new to this, but if this is the amount of
posts we need to read on monthly basis that is unrelated to the regular
synchroblo--it is too much for me.

Kai

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Phil Wyman
<pastorphil at salemgathering.com>wrote:

> Hey Adam,
>
> I don't have any concerns about including atheists in discussion actually.
>  Unless the discussion is assumed to be religious without challenge to the
> acceptance of religion as valid for human experience - this is the mature of
> interfaith discussion.  I simply would not want to falsely advertise
> "interfaith."
> Phil
>
> On Sep 4, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Adam Gonnerman wrote:
>
> I can understand the concerns about including atheists in the
> discussion, but I do believe their unbelief is a specific religious
> viewpoint.  As I've mentioned, I think it's coming down to a question of
> whether this interfaith synchroblog will focus on discussing issues between
> faiths, or sharing individual perspectives from different religious
> traditions on a common topic.  It is also very apparent that there is a
> question of how narrowly we are going to define "religious tradition" or
> "faith."  If atheists are to be excluded, then we are going to need to work
> how what the limits actually are.  Can agnostics join?  I assume not.  What
> about people who have no specific belief in a deity or deities but who
> consider themselves "spiritual"?  There are many forms of Buddhism that
> include no specific doctrines regarding a deity, spirit/soul or the
> afterlife.  Are they to be included?< /div>
>
>
>
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