Monday, August 30, 2010

The Learning of the Jews and the Language of the Egyptians

On the other hand, um, it's pretty funny to have a Mormon calling anyone's Christianity "a perversion of the gospel of Jesus Christ as most Christians know it." Fortunately for Beck, most Christians don't seem especially acquainted with the gospel of Jesus Christ, so the point, although ironic, is probably moot.

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14 comments:

mds said...

Not familiar with the content of their own holy book, not familiar with the content of the Constitution, not familiar with the content of history books that weren't written in crayon by Texans ... Gad, if only "Reading Rainbow" had been hosted by a white dude.

9:25 AM
LP Steve said...

Show some respect, mds. They're pissed off.

9:40 AM
Anonymous said...

Yeah man, those backward hicks are so racist. Just look at America, such a racist place. Unlike France.

10:03 AM
Gridlock said...

Predictably moot too

10:43 AM
fledermaus said...

it's like a bald eagle hi-fiving Jesus . . . forever

12:41 PM
augustus818 said...

If you want a picture of the future, Winston ... imagine a bald-eagle scratching your eyes out forever ...

2:03 PM
IOZ said...

A human hand . . . paying for a chuckka boot . . . forever.

3:57 PM
Enron said...

For what it's worth, some say Mormonism is the first truly American religion.

4:02 PM
Cüneyt said...

It wouldn't be an American religion if it hadn't done it's damndest to annihilate other, older American religions.

8:16 PM
Anonymous said...

...like binge-drinking. Fortunately its annihilation is not yet at hand, since it offers the only spiritually plausible reaction to Glenn Beck and his audience.

8:56 PM
Soj said...

Yes cuz we all know the screaming red man in his thousands certainly didn't have a religion, and their superstitious beliefs were most indubitably not American :P:P

12:30 AM
John said...

It's also among the first big faiths to have a founding narrative that includes Secret Decoder Glasses, which fact also commends to Mormonism some of its essential American-ness.

4:21 AM
mistah charley, ph.d. said...

Speaking of the teachings of Jesus Christ, recently I ordered Parable Wisdom, by Theodore J. Nottingham, and yesterday I got an email saying thebookisinthemail literallyjoebiden. An excerpt from the introduction:

The religion that grew out of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth has had an often schizophrenic relationship to its origins. As a result, in this twenty-first century, many in our day have left the institutional Church and the dogmas of Christianity. They have also put aside the words of the Christ. Great numbers of these individuals have gone on to seek meaning, truth, spiritual awakening through other teachings. But in rejecting the teachings of Jesus along with the religion, it might be said that “the baby was thrown out with the bath water”.



Many of these words have seeped into our culture over the centuries and become associated with ideas and ways of living that have nothing to do with their original meaning. These words of holy wisdom are associated with judgmentalism, rejection, intolerance, abuse, narrow-mindedness, even superstition. Yet, despite their misuse across these two millennia, individuals in every generation have encountered once again the divine light within these teachings and have been transformed psychologically and spiritually.



The reader will find in the presentation of these parables interpretive keys that transcend rigid theologies and assumed meanings which often bury their true content. The very nature of parabolic teaching is through the use of metaphor and therefore can never be boxed into a literalistic interpretation which has been the death-knell of so much biblical teaching. As the apostle said, “The letter kills but the spirit gives life.” The teachings of Jesus have been hijacked too long by those who do not live them out and do not follow their map to authentic enlightenment and awakening to the Presence of God. This book is offered to the reader in an effort to bring to light some of the transforming wisdom revealed to humanity so long ago and so desperately needed again today. May you the reader find for yourself that which will fill your life with new understanding and lift you into a higher place within, and guide you into becoming the person you were always called to be.

Hopefully.

11:27 AM
NutellaonToast said...

Well, fuck, I always thought racism was bad but now that I know that France is racist, I'm rethinking..

6:11 PM

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