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Tue Jan 1, 2019, 05:41 PM

Jan 2019

ames was interested in everything to do with religion. He honed in on how individual temperament interacted with belief and religious experience, or lack of it. Some personalities were incapable of faith, he believed, because their deeper intuitive sources were "frozen," or blocked by the social circles of disbelief they inhabited.

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James on religion: guillaumeb Jan 2019 #1

My entire purpose for posting this was to possibly littlemissmartypants Jan 2019 #3

I simply posted some quotes from the author. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #4

Did you read this part? Voltaire2 Jan 2019 #5

I did. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #7

Awareness of the connection between Voltaire2 Jan 2019 #19

This doesn't fit the dominant debate terms here, which are limited to marylandblue Jan 2019 #16

And from the same source: guillaumeb Jan 2019 #2

The more things change... Act_of_Reparation Jan 2019 #6

Mr. James did have some things to say about atheists as well as theists. eom guillaumeb Jan 2019 #8

I'm very glad you pointed that out, Gil. Mariana Jan 2019 #9

Another gif(t)ed one. guillaumeb Jan 2019 #10

Absolutely. Mariana Jan 2019 #11

What was your reaction to the actual quote? eom guillaumeb Jan 2019 #12

My reaction was that it sounds like something you'd say. Act_of_Reparation Jan 2019 #13

The designated spokesperson? guillaumeb Jan 2019 #14

Case in point. Act_of_Reparation Jan 2019 #15

So... littlemissmartypants Jan 2019 #17

Smith was a con man. Voltaire2 Jan 2019 #18

I think religious experience provides a cultural context for mental dysfunction. marylandblue Jan 2019 #20