Faith and reason
"Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth"
Fast for forty days from bad thoughts and loose weight!
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This is a new evangelical program we had seen yesterday on TBN and it seems like inspired by Christotherapy : "Forty day fast!" of a guy named Gregory Dickow. Here is a reference to the program:

http://pathsofrighteousness.blogspot.com/2008/03/forty-day-fast.html


(see also http://thinkingfast.org/ or http://www.fromtheinsideout.us/ )


It seems fairly fundamentalist and simplicistic. Of course, the eternal question in these positive thinking programs as for mind-fasting too, is: who will decide what it a 'good' and what is a 'bad' thought?


One cannot avoid the painful and sometimes tiresome art of discernment that couuld be aquired an maintained only by constant practice, exercise, and by reliance on a dialog with an objective forum (Church, doctrine, ethos, guide etc.). This objective forum somehow should have a regulatory and advisory role for the subjective factors (what I feel right, what attracts me or what I don't like) that provie the "prime matter" for discernment.




2008-07-07 21:57:38 GMT


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