William James
Sept 28, 2024 10:59:02 GMT -8
Post by The Ninevite on Sept 28, 2024 10:59:02 GMT -8
William James was an American philistine of the 1980s whose book "The Varieties of Religious Experience" is a psychological sort of book in many ways much like Max Weber's "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism". There are two schools of thought about various cults, eastern churches, and forms of Protestantism as well as different national cultures saint's shrines, but they fall into two categories, and they can't be made fractal by taking the two modes of thought beyond parallels. There are an enormous number of churches, thousands of them. You will find as you advance in your studies that you either believe that there is one church with offshoots and competitors which you can compare, or that there are in fact more than one actually true church. There's also atheism, and the attendant belief that since no God exists there are no true churches, but beyond atheism, the broader you make your horizons with Bible studies readings, essays on mysticism, and books claiming to be of the authors prophetic insight, that if there is a valid religious experience, there is either only one church, or more than one church.
This isn't yet a comment or essay on the number of Gods, I'm addressing the number of valid churches. Many writers have produced several volume Bible studies, including Martin Luther, Ellen White, Marry Baker Eddy, and Charles Taze Russel. Under publishing laws pertaining to the first amendment, each writer is exactly equal, and to the mechanical lead press they are all industrially exactly the same. But churches still compete for membership rolls, school tuition from parents, baptisms, televangelism Neilson ratings, and smart looking steepled edifices in posh residential neighborhoods. Since people are allowed to shop around, so to speak, and find their own social peers in the context of Bible (all Bibles are the same but all social organizations are not) the churches as such have to be judged on syllabus content, rhetorical eloquence, good grammar, and above all logical content.
This isn't yet a comment or essay on the number of Gods, I'm addressing the number of valid churches. Many writers have produced several volume Bible studies, including Martin Luther, Ellen White, Marry Baker Eddy, and Charles Taze Russel. Under publishing laws pertaining to the first amendment, each writer is exactly equal, and to the mechanical lead press they are all industrially exactly the same. But churches still compete for membership rolls, school tuition from parents, baptisms, televangelism Neilson ratings, and smart looking steepled edifices in posh residential neighborhoods. Since people are allowed to shop around, so to speak, and find their own social peers in the context of Bible (all Bibles are the same but all social organizations are not) the churches as such have to be judged on syllabus content, rhetorical eloquence, good grammar, and above all logical content.