Maah. The church as a whole scares me. I don't like organized religion -- organization just leads to all sorts of inside political trouble which leads to all sorts of weird shit and all sorts of twisting of what religion really should be. :[
My days back at the church was a mixture of fun and trama, both caused by me and bestow upon me. My aunt told me that the Sunday teacher cried and had aniexy problems because I was such a bother, cuase you know, asking questions like how God never consulted Mary before knocking her up with the Jebus baby is evil.
I also remember how I made trouble about the egyptian first-borns, the killing of the innnocents, and to to think I didn't even know what the internet was back then. ^_^
Again I hope this isn't construed as stalkerishpreserver3July 27 2004, 00:16:12 UTC
Again, just mutual commenting, not meant to be stalkerish...
I'm pretty convinced that the only good thing about Christianity is written in red in the bible. Everything else seems to be a pretty nasty scaffolding wrapped around some pretty damn good ideas. Paul comes off as a pretty messed up closeted and sexually stunted freak. Matthew is a nutbar who sees the end of the world... The rest seem to have good intentions, but even they seem to be trying to rule through fear.
The Old testement is a joke. You can barely take even a spoonfull of it without running over something that just doesn't work.
Then there's the conservative rejection of evolution........................................... I've even met doctors who've rejected evolution!
Perhaps Deism is the more pristine route? God made everything via artifice and through singular action, and his will is manifest in reflection not in deconstruction or simple analysis. You don't need a book, all you need is a beach, garden, or forest path for a temple.
Re: Again I hope this isn't construed as stalkerishpreserver3July 30 2004, 04:27:04 UTC
It's worth the read, especially if your focus is on deconstructing the why's behind it. When you start getting a laundry list of "God's laws" recognize that it was the only way the Hebrews could keep their people in order. Kings and theocrats had to rule through the "fear of God" because anyone with a sling thought they could take down the system (the David and Goliath tale really hits closer to home when you consider David eventually became King of Israel--military leadership and victory equated to a military coup(sure the King "adopted him"), and all of that was God's will apparently).
Then when you read the Psalms, look for the little touches of Shakespeare or his contemporaries. When you see any sort of rhyme or any literary conceit, it had to have come from an English writer and not from raw translation. The King James version of the bible is rife with the stuff.
Layers peeled, the bible has a few good stories nestled in it, just by taking it as a work composed by men to frame their concepts of God.
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Conservative organized religion is t3h suck.
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My days back at the church was a mixture of fun and trama, both caused by me and bestow upon me. My aunt told me that the Sunday teacher cried and had aniexy problems because I was such a bother, cuase you know, asking questions like how God never consulted Mary before knocking her up with the Jebus baby is evil.
I also remember how I made trouble about the egyptian first-borns, the killing of the innnocents, and to to think I didn't even know what the internet was back then. ^_^
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I'm pretty convinced that the only good thing about Christianity is written in red in the bible. Everything else seems to be a pretty nasty scaffolding wrapped around some pretty damn good ideas. Paul comes off as a pretty messed up closeted and sexually stunted freak. Matthew is a nutbar who sees the end of the world... The rest seem to have good intentions, but even they seem to be trying to rule through fear.
The Old testement is a joke. You can barely take even a spoonfull of it without running over something that just doesn't work.
Then there's the conservative rejection of evolution........................................... I've even met doctors who've rejected evolution!
Perhaps Deism is the more pristine route? God made everything via artifice and through singular action, and his will is manifest in reflection not in deconstruction or simple analysis. You don't need a book, all you need is a beach, garden, or forest path for a temple.
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The old testement makes me sick, there was a part about captive wives, and then I closed it, but I had to get back to it someday.
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Then when you read the Psalms, look for the little touches of Shakespeare or his contemporaries. When you see any sort of rhyme or any literary conceit, it had to have come from an English writer and not from raw translation. The King James version of the bible is rife with the stuff.
Layers peeled, the bible has a few good stories nestled in it, just by taking it as a work composed by men to frame their concepts of God.
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