RE: Literature vs. Religion
September 1, 2016 at 1:15 pm
(This post was last modified: September 1, 2016 at 1:17 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(August 31, 2016 at 10:52 pm)bennyboy Wrote:(August 31, 2016 at 10:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Yes. Mostly how not to act in the modern world.
Nah, I think the message of forgiveness and tolerance of Jesus in the New Testament is mostly pretty healthy. I mean, stopping a whore from getting stoned to death and calling her attackers out for their hypocrisy is pretty brave, and pretty progressive.
OTOH, calling a woman a bitch, literally, for belonging to the wrong tribe while she groveled at his feet for a miracle to save her sick child is..perhaps......not very brave, or progressive. Jesus was a flawed hero, another great literary tradition.
(I suppose btw, it was progressive in the context of goatfucking society, but it wasn;t very progressive with regards to more..you know..progressive societies...and as a literary syncretism of hellenistic thought the narrative is more accurately described as regressive.)
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