RE: Russia embraces religious intolerance with draconian blasphemy and anti-gay laws
July 18, 2013 at 8:53 am
(This post was last modified: July 18, 2013 at 9:05 am by The Grand Nudger.)
So what, along the lines of -is there any specific reason I ought to favor one work of fiction - say the bible, over another - say Fight Club...Curious George....or Archie comics.......when shopping for a codex by which to live my life?
(your estimation of what the bible does and doesn't mean ignores a very real -and very common- possibility btw. No distinction is made between the theological and the cosmological. One explained, illustrated, or described the other. The two notions where inseparable to those afflicted. The heavens and all they contain are the brute force of the narrative. The manner in which this or that was said to be created -or said to interect- established theology. One is useless without the other in this formulation....and this is why you end up with stories like "who but god could create a sea dragon" - the very real presence of the sea dragon to these people...in the same way that their cosmological (or otherwise material) explanations were the -proof in your face- of the narratives veracity.....and thusly the power, majesty, righteousness, superiority of said god. A mandate to worship. )
(your estimation of what the bible does and doesn't mean ignores a very real -and very common- possibility btw. No distinction is made between the theological and the cosmological. One explained, illustrated, or described the other. The two notions where inseparable to those afflicted. The heavens and all they contain are the brute force of the narrative. The manner in which this or that was said to be created -or said to interect- established theology. One is useless without the other in this formulation....and this is why you end up with stories like "who but god could create a sea dragon" - the very real presence of the sea dragon to these people...in the same way that their cosmological (or otherwise material) explanations were the -proof in your face- of the narratives veracity.....and thusly the power, majesty, righteousness, superiority of said god. A mandate to worship. )
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