Moses was High
Out of context: Reply #242
- Started
- Last post
- 285 Responses
- TheBlueOne0
I'm done with this conversation...we're just speaking past each other really. I do find spiritual richness in the biblical and christian traditions, although I reject the whole central "mystery" of the NT - the whole Jesus, son of god, died for our sins, raised to heaven part. I find it irrelevant and in fact an obstacle to carrying out how Jesus suggested to live.
I believe that stuff was jacked up from Jewish mysticism of the time and corresponding dionystic greek religions. That part of the christian myth bores me to tears, and as I said above, trying to argue your faith on those points to me with no evidence of how you live a christian life according to Jesus' precepts just makes so many of these christians modern day pharisees to me. Couldn't make it through the eye of the needle, so to speak. It's all following the "man" (false idol) and not living right. i get it, cause you need to believe that J-man was The One. I think of him as A One. We are starting form different places and such iotas make a huge difference down the line. Wars were fought over such differences. I do not wish to refight them.
I think there is incredible amount of scholarship in the academic, judaic and evangelical traditions, but only one has a self-serving idealogy, thus earning the proverbial grain of salt.
I just find it lame that after centuries of development that this weak modern american evangelicalism thinks it needs to use rhetorical tricks and smokescreen use of faulty logical/scientific arguments to make some sort of deeper spiritual point about it's validity. Like I said somewhere above, it's just weak. Whereas I see the arguments about the validity of living a christian life as espoused in say something like Liberation Theology far more powerful and moving...
- <The music from the end of the first Lord of the Rings movie goes soooo well with this writing.harlequino