Holy Flame War pt 1

I don't mean to be hard on the new guy, but I'm about to be hard on the new guy.

As someone who has actually read the bible front to back more than once, I take general offense to people passing dogmatic and political bullshit off as the teachings of Jesus.

In the interests of full disclosure, let me say that I believe the Religious Right is a bigoted, fearful, hypocritical and ultimately horribly misguided monster of a political machine that threatens the very sanctity of American freedom, not to mention human life around the world (just ask those one million Iraqis. Does Jesus not love them?)

Southern_Pride, you said this:

1. You're right, I wrote it, not Jesus... Jesus doesn't write for this blog, therefore your first comment about paragraphs doesn't make sense.

2. If Jesus is completely man AND completely God, as Christians believe, then who said he wasn't omniscient? If you think Jesus played all the cards in His deck I'd go ahead and say that you're sorely mistaken.

3. Unless you have one, there's no written record by the man Himself on the Sermon on the Mount. Pretty sure that was written by my man Matthew the Evangelist in his post tax collector days.


To your first point - I apologize for being facetious. It was disrespectful to you and your belief system. I was not forthright in letting you know that I too share many core beliefs of the Christian faith, and therefore was talking a bit out the side of my mouth. I could see how you could misconstrue this as an attack on your beliefs. This was not my goal.

To your second point - Jesus was god in the form of man. This ridiculous notion that he was somehow 200% GodMan has stake neither in theology nor logic. The story of Jesus is a simple and touching one. God so loved the world that he made himself man and walked the earth. He understood temptation, hunger, pain and all number of other horrors before ultimately sacrificing himself for the greater good of all of his most-valued creation.

Don't mar this story with the All-American Christ nonsense about some messianic superhero. It's quite a gorgeous narrative without Jesus knowing everything all the time.

To your third point - You can't have your cake and eat it too. The Bible is either the pure and holy WORD OF GOD, or it's the work of many men who felt they needed to pass down stories that may or may not be somewhat imperfect due to the flaws of their authors.

If you want to argue the latter, you won't get any resistance from me. However, the Religious Right will not be down with your new interpretation of The Good Book.

And finally, to my point - I find it bothersome that the Religious Right feels free to pick and choose the parts of their religious tome and belief structure that should or shouldn't be applicable to politics. This subversive and insidious practice has no place in 21st century America. It smacks of the Dark Ages and bothers those of us who have found a way to adhere to the teachings of a man who may well have been as enlightened as there ever was without being complete fucking cocks about it.

Questions? Comments?