Boys and relgious doctrine.......
Well..................*squeals*....hehe, ok, I am not that excited but still. I am going to do the vapid live journal thing and say something completely stereotypical. I just am excited. I met this guy, briefly, at the Christian college student get together I go to on Friday nights. It was in a large group and we said we would find each other on face book and friend each other. I thought it was just a nicety. I figured since I didn't get an invite over the weekend that he wasn't serious. I just got an invite and that makes me happy because my name is not one of those that you remember unless you make a conscious effort to remember it.
Enough of that. I had another religion class today for Eastern religions. We talked about something called Axiel Ages in which the understanding of humanity and the relationship to the world around them changed. The first one occurred when man tried to separate himself from nature. Still, gods existed all around in the world. The next axiel age occurred when God revealed himself from a different place, separate from the physical world we reside in. In this, God was a being who lived outside the physical realm we inhabit. With the dawn of the virtual world, there is a belief that a new axiel age is upon us when religion will change again. We had to come up with our own religions, in groups, that we though would embody and encompass the values and problems of this age for many believe the old religions are no longer capable of doing this.
In our group, the subject of the seven deadly sins came up. Many people believed that they are more a part of our world then ever and that people are committing them on a much larger scale. Because of this, it was decided that the idea of the seven deadly sins had to be altered. I cannot agree with this sentiment. I believe that issues of greed and wrath are just being exposed on a much larger level because of the media exposure that now exists. Also, technology has evolved and when someone commits an atrocity, it can effect more people than it did before. In the pre and beginning Industrial Age, we did not have the power to do more damage than one isolated incident or another. We the invention of the atom and the hydrogen bomb, we know have the power to destroy our entire species. In my opinion, it is not necessarily that the idea of these sins has changed but the way that we commit them has. They do not stop existing because people commit them on a larger scale. The rules against them should not be abolished just so people do not feel bad about committing them. Even if corporations and thus corporate greed did not exist in preceding times, it does not mean that greed on such a scale did not exist before. It just manifested itself large scale in rulers and dictators, officials given too much power and people who controlled trade routes. They still could effect many people. The world was just not connected in the same way it is now with technology. Should the idea of greed as a sin be abolished because people can committed more easily now and on a larger scale?
I am not exactly sure what idea I am trying to get out. I know I am just trying to wade through these thoughts left over from today's discussion. I think I may be having one of these entries showing up after every class if things keep being as thought provoking as they have been.
Enough of that. I had another religion class today for Eastern religions. We talked about something called Axiel Ages in which the understanding of humanity and the relationship to the world around them changed. The first one occurred when man tried to separate himself from nature. Still, gods existed all around in the world. The next axiel age occurred when God revealed himself from a different place, separate from the physical world we reside in. In this, God was a being who lived outside the physical realm we inhabit. With the dawn of the virtual world, there is a belief that a new axiel age is upon us when religion will change again. We had to come up with our own religions, in groups, that we though would embody and encompass the values and problems of this age for many believe the old religions are no longer capable of doing this.
In our group, the subject of the seven deadly sins came up. Many people believed that they are more a part of our world then ever and that people are committing them on a much larger scale. Because of this, it was decided that the idea of the seven deadly sins had to be altered. I cannot agree with this sentiment. I believe that issues of greed and wrath are just being exposed on a much larger level because of the media exposure that now exists. Also, technology has evolved and when someone commits an atrocity, it can effect more people than it did before. In the pre and beginning Industrial Age, we did not have the power to do more damage than one isolated incident or another. We the invention of the atom and the hydrogen bomb, we know have the power to destroy our entire species. In my opinion, it is not necessarily that the idea of these sins has changed but the way that we commit them has. They do not stop existing because people commit them on a larger scale. The rules against them should not be abolished just so people do not feel bad about committing them. Even if corporations and thus corporate greed did not exist in preceding times, it does not mean that greed on such a scale did not exist before. It just manifested itself large scale in rulers and dictators, officials given too much power and people who controlled trade routes. They still could effect many people. The world was just not connected in the same way it is now with technology. Should the idea of greed as a sin be abolished because people can committed more easily now and on a larger scale?
I am not exactly sure what idea I am trying to get out. I know I am just trying to wade through these thoughts left over from today's discussion. I think I may be having one of these entries showing up after every class if things keep being as thought provoking as they have been.