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Gotta ask, Cindy (and you know I love ya, sister, and I respect your personal study and opinions when it comes to matters of scripture) what do you think about Lilith?
See, I think that's exactly what pisses everyone off about Typo and people who feel/think the way he does: NOBODY has a problem with someone who is happy in their Christian beliefs, not even me. What I, and many others, do have a problem with is Christians who tell us that to believe otherwise is just patently wrong, i.e.:
If that isn't control through fear, I don't know what is.
The fact is, a spiritual revelation is personal, just as any other deeply held morality/philosophy. Hell, I had a spiritual revelation that brought me to Wicca. Yet MY spiritual revelation is irrelevant to someone like Typo. It doesn't count, because my revelation did not lead me to his philosophy
Therein lies the frustration, so you hit the nail right on the head.Why does it have to be so exclusionary? "I'm right, ergo, EVERYONE else has to be wrong, period" end of discussion. Why is a voice or feeling that leads someone to Christianity true, and a voice that leads someone to worship at the altars of the old pagan gods or at a Buddhist shrine wrong?
Now, on a deeper level, you and I both know we're essentially talking smoke and mirrors, rose by any other name crappola (Biblical interpretation generally being watered down on top of the original material being highly symbolic), but you're very well read on the subject and you've read a lot more than "just one book." The encouraged narrowness of mind perpetuated in organized, monotheistic religion can be intensely frustrating. I've sincerely tried to grow beyond Christian bashing, and extend it to general organized religion bashing
but many Christians are frequent offenders: My God is the ONLY God neener, neener, neener when you rot in hell, infidel.In the final analysis, my beliefs are just as valid as Typos, I just don't have a [single] really old, cool book
Oh, and where I'm talking cruel, I'm thinking Hebrews wandering in the desert for 40 years because Moses doubted God, Job being used as a poker chip in a bet between God and Satan or Lot's wife turning into a pillar of salt just because she took a look back at all the commotion. That shit was just mean. Labor and delivery being painful because woman tempted man, please. You stick a couple of innocents in the middle of a garden and say "Don't touch that." What the hell is going to happen? Am I the only one thinking it was a set-up and that the reality is they were supposed to eat the apple (which, BTW, was probably a pomegranate or something like that, apples are not indigenous to the Middle East) and they were such putzes that they needed a push to get on with their emotional/psychological evolution?
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