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The Fork in the Road ...which route to take? Idealist traditions from the ancient past... Cosmic Divinity replicated within oneself... Trancendental Meditation... Far Eastern Mysticism... Self actualization? Or, the modern popular secular mentality... atheist, agnostic, or just purely the no-god pursuit of the good life... the exact copy of the Epicurean hedonism the Apostle Paul rejects? If not, why Christian faith? Why God? Perhaps it’s time for mutual recognition.
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