Jesus was a radical...
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bunnyjadwigaGanked from Amaebi: http://www.utne.com/pub/2005_128/promo/11572-1.html
It's an interesting article... it's how I feel about it, too, even though my experiences with parts of the Judeo-Christian tradition has turned me away from that particular God.
I have in my personal library two books by Robert Fulghum, on being " All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" and "It was on fire when I lay down on it". Fulghum is a minister, though I think he's a unitarian minister... but his short writings are a lot more than fluff, despite the overexposure of 'all ... I learned in kindergarten." He talks about love and joy and God...
Yes, I admit this is a very modern concept of God and of religion. Religion originally was a group enterprise, group activity. It appears to have originally been about ritual more than about belief. That's not a modern concept. The advent of certain types of non-tribal religion, such as Christianity and Buddhism, has changed what we think of as religion. It seems to me that in 'historical times' neither Odin nor Jove was portrayed as caring very much if one actually believed in them, but instead was more concerned about the maintenance of forms of obedience....
It's an interesting article... it's how I feel about it, too, even though my experiences with parts of the Judeo-Christian tradition has turned me away from that particular God.
I have in my personal library two books by Robert Fulghum, on being " All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten" and "It was on fire when I lay down on it". Fulghum is a minister, though I think he's a unitarian minister... but his short writings are a lot more than fluff, despite the overexposure of 'all ... I learned in kindergarten." He talks about love and joy and God...
Yes, I admit this is a very modern concept of God and of religion. Religion originally was a group enterprise, group activity. It appears to have originally been about ritual more than about belief. That's not a modern concept. The advent of certain types of non-tribal religion, such as Christianity and Buddhism, has changed what we think of as religion. It seems to me that in 'historical times' neither Odin nor Jove was portrayed as caring very much if one actually believed in them, but instead was more concerned about the maintenance of forms of obedience....
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Date: 2005-02-24 08:29 pm (UTC)