I bring the funny

[flamingsword]

The Q'ran, the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita: all these works are meant to be taken as works of non-fiction, based on the world and actual revelations/experiences had by the authors about that world's origins. As Kathy Mar sings, "Humans wrote the Bible, God wrote the world." And that's deep and everything, but as a corollary it also means that the

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[rexluscus]

This is genius! It makes the Judaism/Christianity/Islam conflict so clear to me now: the latter two are just a couple of snotty Suethors who think they have the better OMC, and they both hate Judaism because Judaism brings the OC-hate and only has time for fic about canon characters. If only the rest of the world could understand this. :)

[rexluscus]

Oh - I'm here from cluegirl's rec, btw.

[flamingsword]

Hee! Thanks. It's so much fun when your brain makes a left-hand turn in the world of paradigm shifts.

[ariadneelda]

Here via cluegirl. This is brilliant! :D

[flamingsword]

Thanks. I'm just glad that I finally came up with something that I think is funny for which other people aren't going to look at me like I'm smoking crack. Well, not much anyway. :)

[dyingfire]

-Comes out of hiding.-

Um...don't take this the wrong way, unless you want to :) ;), but:

OMG! I love you! Have my children?

On a more normal non-fangirling note: Best. Thing. Ever! Really!

Also, I'm going to link this.

-Resumes hiding again.-

THX

[flamingsword]

I would make a very cool Baby-Momma, as long as I didn't have to raise the psychotic little tyke. So . . . SURE!

And it's okay, you can be creepy and stalkery on my journal if you want to. :D

Yay!

[dyingfire]

For you the Adam and Steve icon.

No worries, I figure the kids can be adopted, b/c I'm not up to that either.

YAY! -Starts picking out names.-

I figured you wouldn't care about my fangirl squee over this, but I had to at least explain it.

Quite droll

[lord_of_entropy]

While your thesis is striking, still, a small quibble:

All religious texts claim to be based on the words of a deity

This depends, I suppose, on what you consider a religious text, and what you define as a deity, but some potential exceptions spring to mind.

First of all, the Tao Te Ching. Lao Tzu may have been deified, but this is happened after the text became popular, and thus the book of the Way was not originally popularised as "the writings of [a] god."

Secondly, the Tripitaka. Many Buddhist schools, particularly Theravāda Buddhists, are not claiming to be speaking for any deity, nor would these individuals agree that Siddhārtha was in anyway a god (a lesser state then Nirvana, I'd say).

Thirdly, to move to division within Judeo-Xian thought, it is not necessary to believe in the Mary-Jane version of Jesus, nor indeed in a deity that would ever intervene directly in world events, to be a part of the fan-base. Thomas Jefferson's Bible is one of the best known examples of this, as are the several forms of Unitarianism.

Re: Quite droll

[flamingsword]

Taoism is a philosophy, not a religion. It does not claim to know the heart of the way.

You totally have me on the Buddhism thing, though, and I've never heard of the Jefferson Bible. *saves link*
:J You are the wellspring of resources, aren't you?

Re: Quite droll

[lord_of_entropy]

Taoism is a philosophy, not a religion

That would really depend on whom is practicing the Way- many folk traditions have blended with Taoism, and self-identify their religious tradition as "taoism".

In my experience, the line between philosophy & religion is both esoteric, and highly relative.