(September 23, 2018 at 6:57 pm)Minimalist Wrote:(September 23, 2018 at 4:05 pm)Dancefortwo Wrote: Pfffft.Minimalist, I just took a closer look at your avatar.
No, it's not totally off the topic of a burning bush.
Don't fuck with Min the Great. Look at how he turned the WLB's member into a mushroom!
(September 23, 2018 at 4:17 pm)Aliza Wrote: I don't really have a strong stance on that. It sounds like it was a metaphor to me. If at some time in the future, we have the technology to go back and see for ourselves what happened, and it turns out that it really was G-d dressed up as a burning bush, I will be willing to take a firm stance on the matter.
See, this is generally why I like jews better than any other class of religitard. They think. And for the most part they don't take it all that seriously.
In 2001, this fellow spoke to his congreagation, thusly:
http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/13/news/mn-50481
Quote:On Passover last Sunday, Rabbi David Wolpe raised that provocative question before 2,200 faithful at Sinai Temple in Westwood. He minced no words.
"The truth is that virtually every modern archeologist who has investigated the story of the Exodus, with very few exceptions, agrees that the way the Bible describes the Exodus is not the way it happened, if it happened at all," Wolpe told his congregants.
Wolpe's startling sermon may have seemed blasphemy to some. In fact, however, the rabbi was merely telling his flock what scholars have known for more than a decade. Slowly and often outside wide public purview, archeologists are radically reshaping modern understanding of the Bible. It was time for his people to know about it, Wolpe decided.
No one called for him to be fired. Or killed.
You'll note in the article that the xhristard speaking in opposition is Bryant Wood, a YEC shithead who keeps trying to breathe life back into the fucking bible. As Dilbert once noted, that's like "trying to do CPR on a mummy."
We'll get along, Aliza. It's the fundies who draw my wrath!
From the LA Times article, "Others think it combines myth, cultural memories and kernels of truth." That's where I am.
Regardless of whether or not G-d was a burning bush that spoke to Moses or whether or not the Jewish people really crossed the sea of reeds because the wind blew and exposed a little land bridge (because tides and blustery days are so unfathomable), it doesn't change anything. Whether it happened or not, the objective in life isn't to decide whether the stories in the Torah are literal or not; you've missed the forest for the trees in that case. The objective is to live a good life and cram in as many amazing experiences as you possibly can. Some people achieve that goal by studying the pearls of wisdom they see in the Torah. Others achieve that goal by following a different path. Either path is correct if you live a good life.
