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discernment that only is perceived through the intuitive heart. While it blindly ignores science in superstitious fear and devotional trust, it goes the very same route of science, using rationalism to determine fixed, formulated and measurable meanings of life.

This is the George Bush and Billy Graham mentality and subsequent growing public majority, which consist of life as literal dualism; good verses evil, sin verses salvation. Mathematical or straight forward logic and rational fundamentalism do have advantages in certain situations, but when the heart center of men are not developed, there exists lopsided men with trained intellects which lack all insight of paradox and ambiguity, devoid of all chaotic irrationalism that permeate the essence of Being and existence, which lives in surrender in nonlinguistic and non-definitive meanings in the rational sense. This is something humanity had at one time in history and subsequently has lost. Thus we have good verses evil, moral verses immoral and so on, something Martin Luther King, Jr. fought so very hard against, only to be reinstated in current issues, such as the rights of gays to marry verses, a discrimination one-sided definitions biasly determining what "morality" consists of.

The above does not apply to the Christian mystics and poets such as St. John of the Cross and Meister Eckhart, Boehme, Tauler and various others forgotten in the pages of history.

Couple arrested after 'Passion' fight

Mel Gibson, right, directs Jim Caviezel, playing Jesus, in "The Passion."

STATESBORO, Georgia (AP) -- A couple who got into a dispute over a theological point after watching "The Passion of the Christ" were arrested after the argument turned violent.

The two left the movie theater debating whether God the Father in the Holy Trinity was human or symbolic, and the argument heated up when they got home, Melissa Davidson said.

"It was the dumbest thing we've ever done," she said.

Davidson, 34, and her husband, Sean Davidson, 33, were charged with simple battery on March 11 after the two called police on each other. They were released on $1,000 bail.

According to a police report, Melissa Davidson suffered injuries on her arm and face, while her husband had a scissors stab wound on his hand and his shirt was ripped off. He also allegedly punched a hole in a wall.

"Really, it was kind of a pitiful thing, to go to a movie like that and fight about it. I think they missed the point," said Gene McDaniel, chief sheriff's deputy.