Comments | rose_griffes: classic religious blunders

rose_griffes

classic religious blunders

Aug 16, 2009 06:48

As I've been examining my own thoughts and feelings about the many, many different takes on the Twilight series, one thing keeps hitting me: I'm seeing the same kinds of missteps in outsiders looking at my religion that I've seen all of my life. I'll take a wild guess and say that people belonging to other less-than-mainstream religious groups see ( Read more... )

twilight: the tag i never wanted, church

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frolicndetour August 16 2009, 13:06:06 UTC

Yaay, you posted it! It's too bad that all of this isn't just common sense (it's too bad that common sense is a misnomer), but this is a helpful guide to discussing any cultural group, really, without making a dolt of yourself. Thank you for writing it. :)

rose_griffes August 17 2009, 01:52:58 UTC

You're welcome! And hey, pingback_bot worked! (I enabled it after your recent post about it, then I forgot I had...)

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artemis_90 August 16 2009, 14:50:52 UTC

(here from allie's rec)

For the first list, I think #2 could be paraphrased as:
Never trust someone who claims expertise if they can see it from their house!

Seriously though, thanks for the reminders. I try to never to discuss religion at all because
1) I'm STILL confused about my own, but still LIKE it better than others
2) I find any type of religious PROSELYTIZING distasteful
and 3) how can FAITH be discussed LOGICALLY and emotionallessly? Crazy!

rose_griffes August 17 2009, 01:55:23 UTC

Thanks for commenting!

Never trust someone who claims expertise if they can see it from their house!
Heh. I always meant to look up that statement and see if it had any follow-up remarks, but I never did.

I'm okay with proselytizing, but it depends on how it's done. I'd rather hear someone tell me what she likes about her religion and how it makes her happy than have her tell me what's wrong with my religion.

emmiere August 16 2009, 15:04:03 UTC

Great list in getting to the point and keeping it nice and simple.

Bookmarking as a reminder to keep myself from blundering into the danger zone. Thank you. :)

You know, the movie The Princess Bride doesn't stand up well to an examination of gender treatment. Frak.

*Sigh*....yeah, I got nothin'. Frak

rose_griffes August 17 2009, 01:56:04 UTC

Thanks for commenting, I'm glad it seems useful! :D

daybreak777 August 16 2009, 16:59:17 UTC

Hee. I am giggling because you have an unwanted Twilight tag. I still can't believe that series has gotten so much attention.

It is hard to get unbiased information (either way) about a religion one isn't familiar with. As someone said above, it's about faith. How does one discuss that without emotion? Hard to do.

I still can't believe both goblets were poisoned!

rose_griffes August 17 2009, 01:58:31 UTC

I am giggling because you have an unwanted Twilight tag.
I would never have dreamed about posting about the series more than once if I hadn't seen the classic blunders so many times. Stupid tag over something I didn't plan to talk about again... *sigh*

It is hard to get unbiased information (either way) about a religion one isn't familiar with.
Yup.