tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667005464723133101.post2083363268633768110..comments2023-10-30T14:46:42.973+10:00Comments on Jottings: I have been memed: Five books that have left me more stupidMichaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356422488538820280noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667005464723133101.post-80343523660932992822009-07-18T10:58:36.662+10:002009-07-18T10:58:36.662+10:00Yes it is indeed time to move on and throw away, w...Yes it is indeed time to move on and throw away, with both hands all of the "religious" nonsense and lies that we have inherited.<br /><br />People such as Spong and others have done us a great service by pointing out the toxic inheritance that ChristianISM has bequeathed the entire world.<br /><br />This author spent 50 years investigating the "truth" claims of ChristianISM and has thus pointed out that there is NO basis in Truth or Reality for any of these "truth" claims.<br /><br />http://www.dabase.org/christian.htm<br /><br />http://www.beezone.com/AdiDa/jesusandme.html <br /><br />He was also thoroughly familiar with ALL of the modern critical scholarship re Christianity and pointed out that most of it was essentially true. <br /><br />In recent years he published several essays summarizing the findings of this scholarship, and extended (and criticizing) the findings with his own Divine Understanding.<br /><br />Though, like mainstream Christian apologetics and theology altogether, it suffered from an entirely reductionist bias. That is did not, and in fact could not, even begin to proffer an esoteric understanding of any Sacred Text, Christian or otherwise. It was thus an extension of the entirely godless secular world-view or ideology/paradigm that (mis)-informs the Western world altogether.<br /><br />So how do we move on?<br /><br />The first step is to become really clear about the limitations of ALL of our inherited cultural scripts, both "individual" and collective.<br /><br />This set of essays, and the website altogether provide the necessary tools for doing just that.<br /><br />http://www.adidam.org/teaching/aletheonSuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16166306300148053274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1667005464723133101.post-33431001644971111652009-07-17T10:43:20.258+10:002009-07-17T10:43:20.258+10:00I like Spong, but only because he's somebody t...I like Spong, but only because he's somebody to whom I can point my finger and say, "Aha! A Bishop who appreciates the fact that the Hebrew Bible is a Semitic text!"<br /><br />I certainly cannot comment on his NT scholarship (or lack thereof), but his appreciation of the Bible as a text that bears more of a structural relationship to the Midrashim than, say, to Plato is refreshing.Simon Hollowayhttp://www.benabuya.comnoreply@blogger.com