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Since their origins are from the very childhood of humankind, why would you expect them not to be childish? Our vantage point of 2000+ years of knowledge explosion, intellectual enlightenment, and spiritual maturation is hardly the benchmark against which these ancient writings should be graded. They should be reinterpreted using our advanced perspective. In the relatively recent era of Silent Movies, the difference such advanced perspective can cause can be readily seen. Take any one of the serious and dramatic silent flicks and see what your reaction to them is. It is unlikely to be serious and dramatic as the early audiences would have taken them.
It makes perfect sense to me that ancient superstitious people would have childish beliefs. What makes no sense at all is that some 21st century people continue to subscribe to those ancient childish beliefs.
Why would you? you would never watch that sinful SNL show would you?
I sure wouldn't and that is a shame, I remember watching the first one and how good it was back in the Belushi days with fat man in a little coat dude that died, he was he best, john Candy and others, and then over night it went from the best thing in the world to the worst most embarrassing thing in the world, people may have bragged about being on that show back in the day, but I would be embarrassed to be associated with it today.
I sure wouldn't and that is a shame, I remember watching the first one and how good it was back in the Belushi days with fat man in a little coat dude that died, he was he best, john Candy and others, and then over night it went from the best thing in the world to the worst most embarrassing thing in the world, people may have bragged about being on that show back in the day, but I would be embarrassed to be associated with it today.
Well, Dana Carvey doing Church Lady is not "today". It was late 80s, IIRC.
Since their origins are from the very childhood of humankind, why would you expect them not to be childish? Our vantage point of 2000+ years of knowledge explosion, intellectual enlightenment, and spiritual maturation is hardly the benchmark against which these ancient writings should be graded. They should be reinterpreted using our advanced perspective. In the relatively recent era of Silent Movies, the difference such advanced perspective can cause can be readily seen. Take any one of the serious and dramatic silent flicks and see what your reaction to them is. It is unlikely to be serious and dramatic as the early audiences would have taken them.
Why doesn't god simply show up and give his/her/its message to every generation of man in ALL forms of language? A university doesn't just quit with one generation; so why would a god do it?
Why doesn't god simply show up and give his/her/its message to every generation of man in ALL forms of language? A university doesn't just quit with one generation; so why would a god do it?
Exactly.
Maybe they were right back in the 1960s. God is dead. Hmmmmmmm.
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