(July 23, 2016 at 3:37 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(July 23, 2016 at 3:13 pm)The Viking Wrote: I remember a priest tried to explain the allegory of this to me about 10 years ago...
He said it was indicative of "criticism" people levelled at the church for preventing access to knowledge and thus a metaphor for god being the 'keeper' of knowledge away from unenlightened man.
He said that he interpreted it a different way, and believed that god was protecting us from shame and guilt. That our 'nakedness' was our vulnerability as a people being manifest.
I actually thought that was a cracking explanation - but when you then have a church who have done nothing BUT ram shame and guilt down the throats of people for around 1500 years now. The church views humanity's nakedness as an excuse to pour scorn on people's vulnerabilities - when god was allegedly protecting us FROM those vulnerabilities.
Flawed logic, doesn't even begin to describe that.
You put priest in the same post with nakedness! Oh damn. Well, maybe Minimalist won't see this thread.
Too late.
