Religion Vs Rationalism
Any church goers out there? Do you ever go to church/synagogue and sit in the pews. You follow the readings, the sermon and the first thing that comes to your head is - "woa - I am not buying any of this!"
The preacher/Rabbi of course is the salesman. It is his duty to make sure that he gets you into that seat every Sunday or Saturday if you are Jewish. He is basically telling you that the readings which were written by human beings thousands of years ago pertain to us in this modern day. Come on, these people did not know how it was that the sun set and rose the next day. They had no idea that the earth was rotating and moving at the same time going around the sun. They never thought of a world with technology. Put one of those ancient writers on the subway platform and he will positively freak and shriek when he sees that subway come out of the dark cave. So it is very unlikely that his readings literally can pertain to us and how we live today. That is where our salesman comes in and he has a big challenge. "No," he says "it does not really mean that literally. You must look beyond the meaning to find a deeper meaning." I am thinking "yes and if you stare long enough into the clouds, you will see that giraffe head poking out of the Toyota Tercel on its way to the great parade in the sky."
One of the reasons why Christians mistreat the Jews is because they are actually saying "You dumb ass, you missed the messiah and he was right under your big nose!" The torture for the Jews doesn't stop..."We are going to rub it in by turning Christmas into the biggest holiday of the year. We are going to get as many bright candles and lights...our xmas tree outshines your menorah candle any day." Christians have the audacity to think that before Christmas, mankind was incapable of giving. The Jews in turn are perplexed with the Christians. They sort of think like this..."Why is it they preach peace and tolerance yet they keep coming after us!" I think they would say to Christians - "Look if you want to go and suffer go right ahead...don't get me involved..." They probably also say "Look we got the tablets from God from the mountain and there is definitely no Three for one or Three in One or one for all or any other muskateer slogan ok. Correct us if we are wrong - Jesus was one of us and if we didn't think he was God ...why would you? We did not kill him ...the Romans did and umm where is your church now...in Rome! Seems to us if you are going to punish the descendants of the real perpetrators you have to go to Italy and not Israel."
Back to our preacher/priest/rabbi, they have to figure out new ways of interpreting an old text. Because everyone wants to know how Noah got every single animal in twos from the insects to the Rhinos on his ship. I mean you have to have cages in a zoo but what about a moving vessel? They didn't make vessels like "The Love Boat" because if they did, Noah's people would be partying it up like they did when Moses left them to get the commandments. "We need more space..dump those two unicorns overboard...no one is going to miss them anyways." But you know what...no matter how much you question...the priest/rabbi always has an answer. That answer is something that you can never really reply to. "Son that is one of God's great miracles." In most cases, we say "Wow" and the magic show continues. But the show does not really continue because the content of the show gets scrutinized and people looking and digging for clues of what really happened become disenchanted and move away. The amazing thing is that organized religion cannot adapt. To adapt will have meant to have been wrong about something in the first place. Can you see that now?
The Christian confession: "Well no one really saw him being put in the tomb and no one really saw him resurrect. Nobody really knows about his mom being the perpetual virgin. Sorry about that. The Jews did not kill Jesus. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you Jews in the last two thousand years. Sorry."
The Jewish Confession: "We do not have a clue about how or why God made us the chosen people. Maybe we misheard Him saying we were the chosen people to be picked on. We really are sorry but we did lose count of all the begatting that was going on and the best thing we have to back up our stories is a great word of mouth system. We were the best at the broken telephone game."
Rationalism and religion do not go hand in hand. I have not even touched on Islam yet but having faith in something really does require you not to think but to accept and belief so that the preacher/rabbi will have his job next week.
The preacher/Rabbi of course is the salesman. It is his duty to make sure that he gets you into that seat every Sunday or Saturday if you are Jewish. He is basically telling you that the readings which were written by human beings thousands of years ago pertain to us in this modern day. Come on, these people did not know how it was that the sun set and rose the next day. They had no idea that the earth was rotating and moving at the same time going around the sun. They never thought of a world with technology. Put one of those ancient writers on the subway platform and he will positively freak and shriek when he sees that subway come out of the dark cave. So it is very unlikely that his readings literally can pertain to us and how we live today. That is where our salesman comes in and he has a big challenge. "No," he says "it does not really mean that literally. You must look beyond the meaning to find a deeper meaning." I am thinking "yes and if you stare long enough into the clouds, you will see that giraffe head poking out of the Toyota Tercel on its way to the great parade in the sky."
One of the reasons why Christians mistreat the Jews is because they are actually saying "You dumb ass, you missed the messiah and he was right under your big nose!" The torture for the Jews doesn't stop..."We are going to rub it in by turning Christmas into the biggest holiday of the year. We are going to get as many bright candles and lights...our xmas tree outshines your menorah candle any day." Christians have the audacity to think that before Christmas, mankind was incapable of giving. The Jews in turn are perplexed with the Christians. They sort of think like this..."Why is it they preach peace and tolerance yet they keep coming after us!" I think they would say to Christians - "Look if you want to go and suffer go right ahead...don't get me involved..." They probably also say "Look we got the tablets from God from the mountain and there is definitely no Three for one or Three in One or one for all or any other muskateer slogan ok. Correct us if we are wrong - Jesus was one of us and if we didn't think he was God ...why would you? We did not kill him ...the Romans did and umm where is your church now...in Rome! Seems to us if you are going to punish the descendants of the real perpetrators you have to go to Italy and not Israel."
Back to our preacher/priest/rabbi, they have to figure out new ways of interpreting an old text. Because everyone wants to know how Noah got every single animal in twos from the insects to the Rhinos on his ship. I mean you have to have cages in a zoo but what about a moving vessel? They didn't make vessels like "The Love Boat" because if they did, Noah's people would be partying it up like they did when Moses left them to get the commandments. "We need more space..dump those two unicorns overboard...no one is going to miss them anyways." But you know what...no matter how much you question...the priest/rabbi always has an answer. That answer is something that you can never really reply to. "Son that is one of God's great miracles." In most cases, we say "Wow" and the magic show continues. But the show does not really continue because the content of the show gets scrutinized and people looking and digging for clues of what really happened become disenchanted and move away. The amazing thing is that organized religion cannot adapt. To adapt will have meant to have been wrong about something in the first place. Can you see that now?
The Christian confession: "Well no one really saw him being put in the tomb and no one really saw him resurrect. Nobody really knows about his mom being the perpetual virgin. Sorry about that. The Jews did not kill Jesus. We regret any inconvenience this may have caused you Jews in the last two thousand years. Sorry."
The Jewish Confession: "We do not have a clue about how or why God made us the chosen people. Maybe we misheard Him saying we were the chosen people to be picked on. We really are sorry but we did lose count of all the begatting that was going on and the best thing we have to back up our stories is a great word of mouth system. We were the best at the broken telephone game."
Rationalism and religion do not go hand in hand. I have not even touched on Islam yet but having faith in something really does require you not to think but to accept and belief so that the preacher/rabbi will have his job next week.
posted by Robert @ 9:45 p.m.
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