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In April I will be tag-teaming with the one and only Mark Batterson for a pre-conference session at the National New Church Conference in Orlando, Fla. The pre-conference track is about creative communications in the church. In addition, I will be tag-…

I wish to make it clear that The Brights’ Net is not, and never has been an anti-religious organization. This is patently clear from a reading of the home page (www.the-brights.net). The purposes of the organization are also clearly stated on the home page:
1. Promote the civic understanding and acknowledgment of the naturalistic worldview, which is free of supernatural and mystical elements.
2. Gain public recognition that persons who hold such a worldview can bring principled actions to bear on matters of civic importance.
3. Educate society toward accepting the full and equitable civic participation of all such individuals. The Brights’ Net is essentially a civic rights organizations, working to create a level playing field for all worldviews (both naturalistic and supernaturalistic).

As an example which you can learn about from the website, we have created a Special Interest Group which is working with a large international religious organization.

This Brights Action SIG-2 is formed specifically to enable a self-designated portion of the Brights’ constituency to interact with the United Religion Initiative. The URI organization focuses on uniting peoples of varied worldviews for action, attempting to bridge gaps between human groups in order to harmoniously work together to reduce religiously-motivated violence and advance justice across the globe.

I’m glad you say religious belief is comprised of both logic and emotion. Since you affirm the former, with all due respect, it seems, hidden within your comment, is a contradiction. With your conviction that “no one individual or group of individuals is superior to another”; I would agree (with one important qualification), but it seems that your comment is directed not at individuals but at ideas. And if indeed your comment comprises both individuals and ideas, how do you maintain the integrity (logicality) of the aforementioned statement without invoking the apparent superiority you disdain? In other words, if you put forth the statement, “no one individual…is superior to another,” aren’t you just claiming superiority, or at the very least that statement itself is superior?

If Jesus existed and the history of His actions are somewhat known, then Jesus agrees with you in principle, He was an egalitarian towards individuals but He was an elitist when it comes to ideas. So I guess the question is, can an individual who is not superior (in substance) to another hold ideas that are superior (in content) to that individual?

Peace.

Spirituality resides in the heart, the soul, and no amount of going to church, synagogue, temple, or religious attendance will put out the illuminations within.

Science may reign, in the future, on the exterior, but what lies inside is what matters.

People of faith, come from diverse backgrounds, cultures, religions. Who is to say with certainty that one faith is better than the other. Those who do, go against the very grain of religious belief, and put themselves in a position of superiority. No one individual or group of individuals is superior to another. We all bleed the same color blood, and we all need to learn to survive, and live as equals, under the planetary umbrella.