Phillupus and his take on Cee Lo’s “reinterpretation” of Lennon’s Imagine, and monism in general.

In terms of all religions being “true” and my suggestion that they are not, this arises from the fact that I am not a monist, and I do not think that the undeniable differences in thought, theology, and practice of a great many religions all ultimately find reconciliation in an “Ultimate” or a “Oneness” that is at the heart of the universe and that is the source of all things. In a physical sense, I can certainly buy that at one point in the distant past, the universe that we know was “all one,” but I think that looking backward to an idealized time before the Big Bang, or looking forward to a time when all will be one again in the Big Crunch, is a very nice way to avoid dealing with the very real differences that have to be confronted here and now.

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