RE: Incommensurabiliy
January 7, 2020 at 6:33 am
(This post was last modified: January 7, 2020 at 6:45 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(January 6, 2020 at 9:32 pm)Rhizomorph13 Wrote: They brush against ideas and glom onto any that feel truthy then just craft their own religion out of whole cloth and a mixed bag of whatever they fancy.
It's worth mentioning that this is religion working as intended. It's not a malfunction. The strength and tenacity of a set of religious beliefs is in direct proportion to it's amenability for personal interpretation and conceptual revision. Orthodoxies rise and fall because one generation of believer is rarely interchangeable with the last - even as those believers demand a sense of continuity in their faiths.
Hai's re-imagining of christianity is a great example of this, and the phenomena of the borrowed ladder that initially propelled christian thought.
-and for you, Hai
OFC theology is more real than the contents of the myth from which it's derived. This is never not the case. The theological merit of the loaves and fishes, for example, far outweighs the fact that this was never some news story from a coastal fishing village. Similarly, classical myths about sun gods retained their theological merit long after the cultures who manufactured them stopped believing that a charioteer drove a star through the sky. That merit is retained even today, when we know better -and- when we no longer accept any portion of their religious beliefs at a conceptual level.
Your own theology is also more "real"...to you, than the myth you've selected as a backdrop to glean whatever amount of credibility and deference it might offer. If you didn't pretend that you based this on magic book...and magic books real original message™.....you'd sound like a nutter, even to yourself. Before you get too worked up..remember from above, this is religion working as intended. I'm not criticizing, in fact I would applaud you for finding a way to take a barbaric myth and bend it to your much improved and modern sensibilities. The world would be a shittier place if the lot of you hadn't been doing that for all these years.
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