Thoughts and Prayers: The Religion Thread

Shaman is the second oldest profession.

 

As if I give the first shit what "someone on this board just pondered."

 

I am not intrepid enough to wander into the gnostic gospels. I am not weird enough yet for mysticism.
I read a bit of the lost Book of Jude several years ago and it creeped me out.
Gronk like football. Gronk eat football. Gronk need man to throw football.

 

I don’t think western religion looks at God that way at all. I think secular humanists may frame God that way as a kind of criticism of western religion.

 

Isn't the Bible supposed to be the infallible, divinely inspired word of God?

 

No.

(Denominational mileages may vary.)

 

The Quran, however . . .

 

Yahweh lacks self-confidence. Yahweh wants to borrow the car. Yahweh is sullen. Yahweh is locked in the bathroom again. Yahweh lashes out at the dinner table. Yahweh needs a hug.

 

Not all Muslims are fundamentalists. They don't have a Saudi bankroll spreading their doctrines, however. Analyses - Wahhabism | PBS - Saudi Time Bomb? | FRONTLINE | PBS

 

I'll sign on to this, and push back against the other characterizations. Lots of need to interpret beyond a surface reading, but to me that's the point.

 

I think you can get consensus on "divinely inspired," but "infallible" takes a beating even on its own terms.

Plenty of mistranslation woes over the centuries, and a lot of the Old Testament is undone by the New.