(September 19, 2023 at 10:17 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote:(September 19, 2023 at 9:24 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: What? Are you truly surprised that it takes wisdom to understand profound things and some fools get it wrong? Like the way fools justify nonsense by appealing to principles of quantum mechanics.
As yes "wisdom" .... don't read it the way it says, read it the way the religionists who actually know nothing of the culture it came from.
I didn't know QM was a subject you were interested in. LMAO
There is one thing a Jewish scholar "teased out", of Genesis, which I consider wise.
In "Good and Evil" Part II Martin Buber talks about his concept of "evil". A lot of Christians have been pointed to his "I And Thou" by their leaders,
and I don't remember thinking is was compelling). But when talking about evil he makes an interesting connection and says where the (mostly missed) concept
of evil in Genesis comes from, which was, as with a lot of Babylonian myth content in Genesis, directly from the Babylonian creation myth and mostly from the "Marduk Slays the Dragon of Chaos". Chaos and Order" is what Genesis is talking about. That's one thing I can agree was wise, even though as most of the Bible myth, was syncretic "borrowing".
Paul Tillich (20th Century Theologian) agrees with him in "The Courage To Be".
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell
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Militant Atheist Commie Evolutionist