Someone will probably burn me by the stake. Or whish they had.
There is the question of freedom of speech. Recently a teacher has been put on half a years leave, full pay, for posting on his blog. Wonder how many are blogging his way now to get leave?
Not talking about that.
He has claimed that his quotation about certain issues were from the Bible, word of God, thousands of years of truth and wisdom, and that he believes in the Bible, as it is true.
True it may be but it ain´t logical. And it's hardly the word of God.
More like the word of a human or several humans trying to make it sound like the word of God. Most of it is history, legends, folklore, ethnography, related and retold until it was written down, edited and adapted to what it is. It was written in ancient Hebrew and other languages, translated into Greek and Latin, from Latin to German and other languages and the Icelandic scrpture was for a very long time based on German, Danish and English translations, until recently when it was adapted via the more ancient texts.
It may be an experiance of the centuries and generations, like much of the Old Norse folklore about Odin and the rest of them. Or the Greek version of Zeuss et al. and so on.
And certainly there is a lot of common sense about what one should or should not do.
There are however dicrepancies in the way it is interpreted.
One commandment is: Thou shalt not kill.
Yet we have priests comforting Death row prisoners who are about to be executed and in some cases they are executed for breaking the commandment - Thou shall not kill...
Excuse me for not getting it.
Another is the one about the only God. I've said this before - If there is only one God, - why does the first commandment refer to other Gods...?
I have always thought that if the first commandment comes from God, the only God, there should not be any competition. So the first commandment acknowledges the fact that people may have other Gods, be members of other religions/clubs, The Jews, in the Desert, with Moses, were only allowed the one.
Fine by me.
So if there is not only one God - who created what?
We can go through the Bible and find such dicrepancies.
One comes from page one. Genesis describes how God created everything and eventually "... God saw every thing that He had made, and, behold, it was very good."
So my question is - who created gays and people with Parkinsons or MS or handicapped people and so on. If there is only one God, and we are his creation - aren't the gays also his creation?
Or what?
If someone else designed gays and so on, - well if so, then there is not only one God...
Right?
Can it be that some quoters have only read the quotes and not the context?
Thou shalt not kill applies to all Christians (and Jews). Jews kill, - well mostly Arabs, but they are human too. As far as I know at least. And therefore Gods creation.
And should it not apply to Christian executors as well? I mean it dosen't say - Thou shall not kill (footnote - unless you are an executioner in Texas or other Jewish or Christian states that uphold the death penalty???) does it?
If the God in the Bible created everything - he also created different ethnic groups and even possibly other religions, like Islam...
Or maybe it was a club of Gods that did it? I mean creating life on earth might be a joint venture? I mean its quite complicated, - is it not?
The Bible texts that forbid gay-ety forbid a lot of things not upheld, such as sex with a women during her monthly. I am not taking this any further but I still don't get this fanaticism about gays. But then I do not ask jobapplicants about religion, politcs, ethnicity, nationality or sexual tendencies. I ask if they have a criminal record and wether they are ready to go the extra mile.
Another view on these issues is that maybe it was nature, nature creates everything and God had nothing to do with it. Which makes all kinds of people natural rather than "unnatural."
Either way, I am probably too thick to get it.
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