[lit-ideas] Re: One fewer god
- From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:43:21 -0400
Real quick. There is no way to talk about religion except to talk in circles.
It is faith, faith, and more faith. Unless you're saying that the Creator
didn't hand down spiritual guidelines or laws (the Ten Commandments, turn the
other cheek, etc. etc.). If that's what you're saying, then how can you be
Jewish or have any religion? Hence the talking in circles. I don't know what
the concept of Chosen People is except that I 'know' that the Jews were Chosen.
To choose is transitive. It is done by something of something. Again, it's
the religious ball of circular wax. It's why I don't imbibe. It's also why
Joseph Campbell gave it all up too except as interesting myths. Really, gotta
go.
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Sent: 8/28/2006 10:35:55 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: One fewer god
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
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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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