RE: Literalism and Autism
September 10, 2019 at 12:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2019 at 1:13 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Your rejecting a Christian claim, not my claim.
In the process you expose another commitment to literalism. “The Gospel Writers”. As though they and their stories aren’t allegory? Jesus, superfisherman?
I have to wonder which of us is actually having trouble identifying allegory?
Have you ever considered that it might be you? That you have a false sense of confidence by reference to other literalist commitments thought, by you, to be even more absurd than your own are to me?
That you’re not as nutty as -those- nutbars...therefore you don’t have equivalent literalist commitment?
Or...longshot, perhaps you misrepresent yourself and your faith...and therefore it always seems as though people are referring to some other faith or person of faith?
Do you or do you not believe in the literal and existent god of the old magic book, who created the world, and who endowed man with a soul, which is in need of redemption, satisfied by the Christ of new magic book, who is of old magic books god?
In the process you expose another commitment to literalism. “The Gospel Writers”. As though they and their stories aren’t allegory? Jesus, superfisherman?
I have to wonder which of us is actually having trouble identifying allegory?
Have you ever considered that it might be you? That you have a false sense of confidence by reference to other literalist commitments thought, by you, to be even more absurd than your own are to me?
That you’re not as nutty as -those- nutbars...therefore you don’t have equivalent literalist commitment?
Or...longshot, perhaps you misrepresent yourself and your faith...and therefore it always seems as though people are referring to some other faith or person of faith?
Do you or do you not believe in the literal and existent god of the old magic book, who created the world, and who endowed man with a soul, which is in need of redemption, satisfied by the Christ of new magic book, who is of old magic books god?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
