\"Bleached Faith\" (Religion)

by xeno6696 , Sonoran Desert, Wednesday, October 21, 2009, 22:51 (5306 days ago) @ David Turell


> > One of my most interesting authors, I've mentioned before, Gerald Schroeder, 40 years a Ph.D. particle physics researcher, 30+ years an Old Test. studies in the most ancient form of Hebrew, has a new book: "God, According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along". He has reinterpreted the OT to show a form of Jewish Process Theology. I'm not finshed with it,
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> Finished the book. In the final portion he makes the case for a rather benevolent Hebrew God, contrary to the usual interpretation, that this 'earlier' version of God is a rather fierce God, and is finally developed into a more loving God in the New Test. (This analysis by Karen Armstrong)-I applaud any attempt to revalue old myths, but it doesn't seem like that difficult of a stretch. Really only a minor shift in valuation. Odin and Loki could also be described as "fierce" but by modern morals "barbaric" or "cruel."

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\"Why is it, Master, that ascetics fight with ascetics?\"

\"It is, brahmin, because of attachment to views, adherence to views, fixation on views, addiction to views, obsession with views, holding firmly to views that ascetics fight with ascetics.\"