A Different Perspective on Jesus

Hambydammit from Life Without a Net has recently published a blog on Jesus that is worth taking a look at.  He also has a fascination with cats holding machine guns (or he is a cat with a machine gun).

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2 Responses to “A Different Perspective on Jesus”

  1. Angie Van De Merwe Says:
    January 8, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    I am ennamored with your “proposal” and your thinking. But, I really do not think that it is easy to disengage the prejuidiced fundamentalist from their views. Their very identity, spcialness, value, purpose, etc. is caught up in what they “know” to be “true”.

    In a book written a long time ago, “Prejidice”, it was discovered that there is such a thing as a prejuidiced personality. I have encountered these types of people and if you “challenge” them in any way, by merely suggesting that there is a possibility that something may be “untrue”, or viewed differently, they “attack”. The attack is personal, as they think that your “suggestion” is a personal attack, which in thier understanding, it is….they are not objective, whatsoever….

    In “Infidel”, a book writtem by a Somalian women, who escaped radical Islam, found asylum in the Netherlands, where she was educated, she reports how hard it was to change her thinking and views, even after her education. There is an internalization that transpires when one learns so young what is “true” and it is narrow in definition of “truth”. It is not as you suggest in educating children to think critically, but indoctrination. This is nothing other than cultish thinking…and it is what evangelicalism is….as it is a package deal, when it comes to Scripture.

    You mention that biblical nihlism is just as bad, but I disagree. Sure, the bible can be useful for someone educating others out of a position, but is the bible necessary even for this goal or purpose? Churches, pastors, and those who have an investment in the Church would say “yes”. My question, is what is of value when it comes to the Church? Socialogically, it is just another group identification. It serves the purpose of the human need to belong, but is not any different in thrust than any other charitable service organization. And I’d much rather leave “God” out of it, as there are so many atrocities that transpire within the Churche’s walls….

  2. Tom Verenna Says:
    January 9, 2009 at 5:38 pm

    What?

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