On Apr 7, 2005, at 2:50 PM, maru wrote:
I sure hope there is an antidote. American Christianity is rapidly beginning to resemble Middle East Islam. Both in the sense of insistence on hardline radical fundamentalism steeped in narrow interpretations of marginally-relevant texts; and in the sense of trying to turn our government into a theocracy.
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'marginally-relevant texts'?
An example please; So far I've only seen various perversions of the Bible
(Unless you count Mel Gibson using the ravings of a delirious German nun
in his /Passion/.).
Perversions of the Bible don't affect its relevance as source material for wisdom. There's wisdom to be found in it, just as the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada and the Koran contain wisdom.
The *marginal* relevance to which I referred is, in my mind, the way that Biblical myths have been used to assert the nature of reality. Six-day creation, Intelligent Design, and the Noachian deluge being the cause of the Grand Canyon, for instance.
(BTW, if the deluge really happened, how does this explain the existence of Meteor Crater, which is +10,000 years old? Shouldn't the flood have filled it in with sediment? Wonder what ICS has to say about that...)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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