RE: A doctrine of alienation
September 18, 2015 at 2:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 18, 2015 at 2:33 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
A book of joy and hope.....filled with violence and degradation. Sounds like a war movie, or a mob movie... Personally, I see no justice there, I see glorification of senseless acts of violence - even more..deification of senseless acts of violence (and not just there, throughout the entirety of the OT and NT).
Mind you, I love stories, I think that the biblical narrative would be utter garbage if it weren;t for all the blood and gore and sex, all the boot stomping, popcorn munching human drama...............I don't begrudge it that device, lol. I just wonder what it is that twists your panties when Dolph Lundgren strings villagers ears together, but somehow when David makes a belt of phillistine foreskin.....it's different, why one is to be avoided and the other is the exact opposite, to be poured over and studied and reread to no end - that one is unacceptable -even as entertainment-...while the other forms the foundational fabric of an acceptable religion. Seems like you're making special exceptions for a pet narrative. Seems hypocritical, even sanctimonious.....to me.
No one will be wiping any tears from my eyes, btw. I'll be crushed beneath the cruel boot of King Jesus and/or left to whither being tormented by the denziens of hell...or failing all of that - shuffled off into eternal solitary confinement.... all "justice" for the "crime" of not bending the knee and daring to be so uppity as to not believe that there's any -actual- justice (let alone hope or joy) in that narrative. This is something that wouldn't change if I saw the heavenly host descend and the narrative begin to unfold in the real world. That would only serve to calcify my opinion completely.
I'm not part of your in-group, or hadn't you heard?
Mind you, I love stories, I think that the biblical narrative would be utter garbage if it weren;t for all the blood and gore and sex, all the boot stomping, popcorn munching human drama...............I don't begrudge it that device, lol. I just wonder what it is that twists your panties when Dolph Lundgren strings villagers ears together, but somehow when David makes a belt of phillistine foreskin.....it's different, why one is to be avoided and the other is the exact opposite, to be poured over and studied and reread to no end - that one is unacceptable -even as entertainment-...while the other forms the foundational fabric of an acceptable religion. Seems like you're making special exceptions for a pet narrative. Seems hypocritical, even sanctimonious.....to me.
No one will be wiping any tears from my eyes, btw. I'll be crushed beneath the cruel boot of King Jesus and/or left to whither being tormented by the denziens of hell...or failing all of that - shuffled off into eternal solitary confinement.... all "justice" for the "crime" of not bending the knee and daring to be so uppity as to not believe that there's any -actual- justice (let alone hope or joy) in that narrative. This is something that wouldn't change if I saw the heavenly host descend and the narrative begin to unfold in the real world. That would only serve to calcify my opinion completely.
I'm not part of your in-group, or hadn't you heard?
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