RE: Christianity is heading for a full allegorization
January 7, 2022 at 8:12 pm
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2022 at 8:31 pm by Paleophyte.)
(January 7, 2022 at 11:26 am)Ahriman Wrote:(January 7, 2022 at 10:47 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: It's really not complicated."God's people are the Jewish people".......no, that's just an allegory. You have to dig deeper.
God's people are the jewish people. It is their cultural religion.
Every culture developed their own gods, their own creation myth and various stories.
For whatever reason, the jews felt the need to identify themselves as god's chosen people.
I agree. Only by digging deeper can we possibly begin to plumb the depths of ignorance and bigotry displayed by its authors. Take this business with epilepsy and demons. Why demons? Did the kid start chucking balls of flaming brimstone? Grow cloven hooves? Open a portal to hell? No, the poor little bugger fell down, started frothing at the mouth, and went rigid. You can only get from there to demons by way of malignant superstition coupled with pathological religious zeal.
Jesus then mumbles some imprecations about everybody in general, casts out the kids demons (Which were never cast in, read the kid's charts dude!), and instantly heals him. Because few things are easier to heal than conditions that only last a few minutes. Until the next seizure of course, but by then you're well out of town. At no point in the story does Jesus have the basic wits to tell the father to Stop leaving your epileptic kid next to fire or water you fucking moron! And when asked why only he could do it Jesus goes holier-than-thou and reveals that it's because his faith is bigger, thicker, and harder. Did you feel the mountains move?
So even according to the Bible, faith is the cure for a problem you don't have.
(January 5, 2022 at 1:09 am)Ferrocyanide Wrote: I remember the few discussions I have had with OEC (old earth creationists) of how Genesis is an allegory.
The problem with viewing the Bible as allegory is that allegory is based on culture. The Bible was written by several cultures and borrowed from even more. The most recent of those has been extinct for nearly two millennia and largely lost to history. That makes allegorical interpretation just a wee bit tricksy. What you're left with is a mandala.
