[lit-ideas] Re: small addendum to Matrix as philosophy
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:47:04 -0800 (PST)
Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 11:10:38 -0500
From: Ursula Stange <Ursula@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: small addendum to Matrix as
philosophy
I believe that Christianity is the only religion that
insists (in some
quarters, anyway) that their creation story is
literally true.
Everyone
else has the sense to recognize symbolism and allegory
and story when
they see it.
I believe that there is a difference between
Christianity and Islam here - in Christianity it seems
the orthodoxy demands literal reading of the accounts
of Creation while in Islamic tradition it has long
been largely accepted that the accounts of creation of
the world in the Koran are not to be taken literally.
This on the grounds that literal reading of such
passages would lead to some anthropomorhic ideas about
Allah - having a hand, riding on a horse etc - which
is considered a heresy. There have been though
fundamentalists who would read even these passages
literally and this too goes some way back to the
Dahiri school. Mostly it is accepted that some
passages in the book are "clear" thus to be read
literally and some are not.
This instead of a scholarly discussion.
O.K.
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