The Problem with Good and Evil
I do not apologize if the following is a bunch of rambling.
I'm taking a Humanities class this semester called The Problem with Good and Evil. It's only the second day of class, and I can already tell you it's my favorite class I've taken in college. It's extremely interesting and every day I leave in anticipation for next week's class.
I wish everyone could take it. Right now we're reading The Prince of Darkness. It's the history of the Devil, but it's also so much more. It focuses on God and how the Devil came to be in Western religions. And how religions have evolved to become the religions of today (stuff I already knew, but this class is much more specific on how it came about).
The major point of today's discussion was creation of the "other." People separate themselves from the other. They are better than the other. The most interesting point for this was a few fun passages in Leviticus. You know them... Gay is damnation. Oh yea, ham too. According to one of the teachers (taught by 2 guys), in Mesopotamia and various other places, homosexuality wasn't bad at all. Quite the opposite. Yea, I knew that too, but I didn't realize that it became damned in the Old Testament to separate the Israelites from the surrounding societies. Pork was also a big thing at the time. So outlaw that shiz.
Now don't get angry and tell me I'm wrong because there's a high chance I'm retelling this inaccurately. And a lot of historical evidence isn't 100% yada yada. I know. But it's still interesting.
I also learned that Medusa might have once been a good goddess. And how she got turned evil when the new religion took over. Serpents were a sign of healing and probably some other good jazz. The idea is that her hair of snakes was actually a crown made of snakes. And her beauty turned man's special no no area to stone... Not her ugliness turning men to stone. But nowadays sex and nature are evil.
YEA
kbye
I'm taking a Humanities class this semester called The Problem with Good and Evil. It's only the second day of class, and I can already tell you it's my favorite class I've taken in college. It's extremely interesting and every day I leave in anticipation for next week's class.
I wish everyone could take it. Right now we're reading The Prince of Darkness. It's the history of the Devil, but it's also so much more. It focuses on God and how the Devil came to be in Western religions. And how religions have evolved to become the religions of today (stuff I already knew, but this class is much more specific on how it came about).
The major point of today's discussion was creation of the "other." People separate themselves from the other. They are better than the other. The most interesting point for this was a few fun passages in Leviticus. You know them... Gay is damnation. Oh yea, ham too. According to one of the teachers (taught by 2 guys), in Mesopotamia and various other places, homosexuality wasn't bad at all. Quite the opposite. Yea, I knew that too, but I didn't realize that it became damned in the Old Testament to separate the Israelites from the surrounding societies. Pork was also a big thing at the time. So outlaw that shiz.
Now don't get angry and tell me I'm wrong because there's a high chance I'm retelling this inaccurately. And a lot of historical evidence isn't 100% yada yada. I know. But it's still interesting.
I also learned that Medusa might have once been a good goddess. And how she got turned evil when the new religion took over. Serpents were a sign of healing and probably some other good jazz. The idea is that her hair of snakes was actually a crown made of snakes. And her beauty turned man's special no no area to stone... Not her ugliness turning men to stone. But nowadays sex and nature are evil.
YEA
kbye