[lit-ideas] Re: One fewer god

  • From: jimkandjulieb@xxxxxxx
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:35:19 -0400

You're talking in circles, Irene.  If a group of people was given a particular 
set of spiritual guidelines and set aside from others, it must have been by a 
Creator.  If you do not believe in a Creator, you cannot believe in "chosen 
people" -- there is no one to have done the choosing.  I highly recommend 
Joseph Campbell's "Power of Myth" book to you. (Btw, the conception of "Chosen 
People" among most people I've run into is very different from the Jewish 
notion of being "chosen".)
 
Julie Krueger 
 
 
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From: aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 9:25 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: One fewer god


I stand corrected.  Still, the Chosen People are chosen by ... God?  Either God 
or man, there is no one else, right?  We follow God's word in the Bible, 
correct?  So therefore, by extension, Judaism is God given?  Christianity is, I 
guess, also God given in that God gave his only son to mankind.  Anyway, I 
gotta go.  To be continued ...
 
 
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Sent: 8/28/2006 9:56:54 AM 
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: One fewer god


That might be possible if I had Cable.   But actually I was asking dosflounder 
whomever he or she is (fresh people to the list are good) because he/she seemed 
to have some education on the matter.  I have read plenty on the subject but 
was interested in his/her take.  (Btw, "give Judaism to the Jews" is a 
meaningless phrase.)  I understand secularists, but be intelligent about it.
 
Julie Krueger
 
 
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