Inspired by a comment left on a friend's journal...

[necrotica]

Reason 934587349875349875 why I never believed in Christianity:

1 Corinthians 11:4 - "Any man who talks to God or speaks words from God with his head covered brings shame on his head."

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[anonoymah]

Ah, yes, got to love those culturally relevantisms that people say "WTF?" to now. There's another Bible passage (also Corinthians, if I'm not mistaken) that says a woman should either keep her head covered in church or else shave her head. Why? Because in that culture at that time, women who went around bare-headed were prostitutes, so it basically means, "don't come to church dressed like a prostitute." The latter stuff if just weird considering the popular depiction of Jesus...we keep the Medieval view; the Roman view showed him beardless, in fact there's a cathedral in Europe where we see two different Jesuses. Part of the idea of modern Christianity is to separate what is culturally relative and hence just a part of the times, from what the core ideas are. Of course, I'd be hard pressed to call myself a Christian these days...I believe the day I found my beliefs were almost identical to those of a certain Satanist, was the day I realize that I wasn't Baptist and he wasn't Satanist...we were both something else, which had simply resulted in each of us being part of organized religion and outgrowing it in the same direction, the main difference being the symbolism we generally stuck with.

I hope I'm making sense. I ought to be in bed right now.