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Rediscovering Christianity
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 5:47 pm
I don't have a belief in any gods, but I do love certain parts of religion. I see the metaphorical side of religion, that is I don't take religion literally, there is a lot of beautiful meanings woven through all the crap that has been added by those who use their religion to imprison others, I could never close myself of and follow any particular religion.
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 5:59 pm
Comparing LOTR to the babble is doing a massive disservice to LOTR.
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 6:07 pm
(August 29, 2014 at 5:46 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Yeah, sorry, but Tolkien is very internally consistent.

Christianity and the Bible make many internal contradictions.

Wonderful?! Seriously?

The hero comes up with the concept of eternal punishment for finite thought crimes.

I spcifically said that Tolkien outdid the Bible
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 6:12 pm
(August 29, 2014 at 5:46 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Yeah, sorry, but Tolkien is very internally consistent.

Christianity and the Bible make many internal contradictions.

Wonderful?! Seriously?

The hero comes up with the concept of eternal punishment for finite thought crimes.

THIS, for me, over-shadows any of the pretty-sounding things in the mythology and makes it all ugly.

It's like, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still Sarah Palin.
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 6:15 pm
What if Tolkien lost his faith and rewrote the Bible and sold it as a work of fiction?
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 6:32 pm
My religion is to be humble and realize that I can never know of all the mystery of the cosmos, I can look up at the stars and realize that I am one with all there is, that I am not separate from all that there is, this to me is a beautiful mystery, a mystery that science and religion can never truly know. Science and inner religion is the opposites of the same coin, to not realize this is to live life unfulfilled.
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 6:37 pm
(August 29, 2014 at 5:59 pm)Napoléon Wrote: Comparing LOTR to the babble is doing a massive disservice to LOTR.

This is why I still prefer LOTR.

What I find funny though is that CS Lewis made a mythical series to be an allegorical fiction that points towards the Bible. The Chronicles of Narnia is actually far better than the Bible itself.
Why read the Bible when you have the Chronicles of Narnia
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 6:38 pm
Quote:I honestly don't see how people fall for it though.


YOu have way too high an opinion of your fellow humans.
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 7:53 pm
(August 29, 2014 at 6:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:I honestly don't see how people fall for it though.


YOu have way too high an opinion of your fellow humans.

I am actually a pessimist
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RE: Rediscovering Christianity
August 29, 2014 at 8:29 pm
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