[lit-ideas] Re: Not in the USA??
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 21:44:57 EST
I THINK the thing, honestly, isn't a unifying thread, but an attempt to read
an ancient text (the Bible), which is a compendium of hundreds of years of
oral tradition passed on through generations, several different genres of
literature, redactions by the score, LITTERALY, as a single monolithic text.
And
then to apply the instructions or lessons given by God in that monolithic
text to our culture, so far removed from the cultures in which it developed,
without transculturating -- applying the principles allowing for cultural
changes....and textual criticism...and literary criticism.... and that just
ain't
gonna work with any degree of cohesiveness. But treating a text in that way
is the hallmark of fundamentalism, I think. And it's so much easier, more
straight forward -- so many fewer judgement calls to make, doubts to have. So
much more work and doubt. Grey areas are far more difficult than strict
black & white.
Julie Krueger
doubting plenty
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Date: 4/1/05 6:25:39 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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I wondered about this: what's the unifying thread? anti-abortion, pro-death
penalty,
pro-feeding tubes, pro-war, anti-gay, anti-secularism, anti-SpongeBob. It's
obviously
self-contradictory. What ties all of this together?
The Schiavo case really brings this into focus: the GOP demands that
government stay out of
the states and family decisions, yet in Schiavo, they tried to override
state and family
law. That was extremely inconsistent.
I think it's the will to power. They WANT power. Regardless of the
"details".
yrs,
andreas
www.andreas.com
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From: <JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 4:03 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Not in the USA??
>
>
> I just got in via ILL Christine Todd Whitman's book and think it will be
> very interesting. I also read this today in the NY Times (Have you read
> this,
> Julie?)
>
>
> No, I hadn't. I'm glad you posted it. There are such, to me, inherent
> contradictions within the political positions of the Religious Right
..... the
> Pope is not being taken off the feeding tube; the same people who scream
in
> horror at the abortion of a severely damaged foetus which doesn't stand a
> chance of life for more than a few hours after birth, or the use of stem
cells to
> cure severely ill and suffering people, also scream for the electric
chair.
> The combination of "values" confuses me mightily. I see more than a lack
of
> consistency; I see a blind determination to ignore coherence and
continuity;
> a lack of real Integrity. But then, I'm sure people look at my weird
> combination of beliefs and ideas and find them likewise incomprehensible.
>
> Julie Krueger
> tired of the strife in the world
>
>
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