Buzsaw writes:
No. I am part English, part Norwegian, part German, a tad of French and the rest mongrel.
Which of course qualifies you to speak for all humanity, despite an arrogant dismissal of anyone 'different.'
Christianity is not an aborrition of Judaism who's scriptures are messianic, the prophets of Judaism declaring a christ/messiah would emerge. Judiasm's OT prophets, including King David himself alluded to specific tennants of Christianity, including the suffering savior. Isaiah 53 etc are examples of this. They are in many OT books.
And the unmistakable identity of this messiah is ....
The Jews were apostate from their own scripture more than they were following the precepts of Jehovah. They were scattered globally because of idolitry etc. They were exiled in apostacy and ignorant of their own scriptures, much like most Christians today are not students of our own scriptures. Thus they fail to understand the significance of the restoration of the nation after 19 long centuries of dispersement.
If you are such an advocate of Christianity over Judaism, why do you place more importance upon which day is the sabbath, the supposed inferiority of women, or indeed all the present day impossible rules of Deuteronomy and Leviticus (see
Year of Living Biblically) than you do over the content of the Sermon on the Mount? or for that matter any of the Gospels? To me it seems it's all Paul and Revelations, Jesus be damned.
Now I realize that those who actually place the words of Jesus over the rest of the Bible may not have the self-satisfaction of condemning others, and also aspire to another set of ideals instead of the senseless and arbitrarily brutality of the divine as continuously described in detail in the OT, but like it or not they share a commonality with the best aspirations of other cultures through their religious belief systems.
It is not God that is wrong, but it could be Buzsaw.
Would you like to know how I can tell the difference IMO?
Racism
Misogyny
Provincialism so extreme it revels in harm to others for the crime of being different.
Abject ignorance and praise of ignorance so vehement it becomes the praise of criminals over the law-abiding.
A total lack of humility before God.
Despite any claim to read, and indeed pretty much only read*, the Bible, I think it is obvious you did not read for understanding but rather to confirm your own authoritarian biases.
*Either an example of bearing false witness or of prideful ignorance
Sorry Buz, as I have said before, I must admire your perseverance but I can't see how anyone can admire your Anti-Christ, Anti-Krishna, Anti-Lhotse, Anti-Buddha, Anti-Human philosophy.
The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
Salman Rushdie
This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces. It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them or destiny that feeds them to the dogs. It’s us. Only us. - the character Rorschach in Watchmen
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