A Devilish Dialogue
Mayor Bob is doing well. I visited him yesterday during band practice and a short pop-in at the pub. He's learned to speak using his prosthetic larynx. It may be easier to understand him now than it was beforehand. There's a hole in the front of his neck where a diaphragm is used to mimic the vibrations of a larynx. The mayor places his finger ( Read more... )
For them, God equals light=good.
Satan equals dark=evil.
So while Christians ignore that it is the sum of the parts (light and dark) that make up the whole, so does John.
Pretty exclusive and decidedly unbalanced for little ole panentheistic me. But such is the way of monotheists. As we say here in the south, they can't help it, "bless their hearts."
And it all came about because of the jealousy of their God. (Jealousy is usually considered to be a dark emotion, so I'm not sure exactly how the Christians manuever past that point, but. . .)
Ex. 20:3-5 You shall have no other gods before me. You shall not make for yourself an idol, or any likeness of what is in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the water under the earth. You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God. . ." (New American Standard version)
Note that the Abrahamic God did not say there were no other gods. . . just that he wanted to be the one and only, and would visit "the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing lovingkindness to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments." Ex. 20:5-6 (NAS)
Indeed, the Israelites (and the early Christians who followed them and this commandment) spent over 1,000 years after they first started the trek to the Promised Land, trying to annihilate all evidence of worship of other deities by polytheistic pagan people living in the countries the Israelites invaded. The savagery is fully documented between the covers of the Holy Bible. I expect after all the butchery they had visited on the pagans, the Pauline Christians must have breathed a collective sigh of relief when they found themselves outnumbered at the Temple of Artemis (Diana) at Ephesus, and the pagan leaders did not cry, "Off with their heads," but actually broke up the mob that wanted to lynch the Christians. See Acts 19:30-41
But the attempt to purge in favor of the "jealous" god didn't work. And so we pagans, be we poly-, mono-, pan-, or panentheists have to grudgingly marvel sometimes at the tenacity of a bunch of people who have committed so much slaughter at the behest of a "jealous" deity.
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