Friday, April 11, 2014

Do You Agree Or Disagree, In General, Mr. Cherkez?

-- I try exceptionally hard to not be a dick, and I work hard to show respect for what other people believe...but when you whisper to my child about heaven and god when you think I won't notice or something...yeah, fuck that. #inlawproblems #ventinghelps
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  • Soup McGee then she mocked me for being #hardofhearing...I #kickedherout
  • Elijah Cherkez What did she say about heaven that bothered you?
  • Soup McGee -- the problem isn't with WHAT she said, the problem is that she whispered, thinking I would not hear her...our child knows some people believe differently than we do, but secret proselytizing is, to my mind- and she knows this- is abusive. After all, she had previously agreed to let me be the 'spiritual leader of our household' - only to hide bibles throughout the house. That's what. Thanks for asking! Question for you: you caught that she mocked me for being hard of hearing, right? So why the focus on heaven and not on compassion for being mocked because of my disability? Also:

    "There are some biblical facts that cannot and should not be ignored, if Christians really value truth. For example, the time separating when Moses lived (ca. 1250 BCE) from when the stories of Moses were written in the Bible (ca. 950 BCE) is about 300 years, representing 15 generations of oral transmission. Can anyone knowing this continue to be a literal believer? The gospels were written 40 -70 years after the crucifixion, which means that most of what we read about Jesus in the Bible was handed down orally for two to three generations before one word of it achieved written form. The gospels were also first written in Greek, a language which neither Jesus nor his disciples spoke or wrote! How can anyone claim "inerrancy" for such material? Other facts well-known in the academy, but seemingly unknown outside by either believers or critics, are that scholars can find no evidence that miracles were associated with the memory of Jesus before the 8th decade of the Christian era, that there is no mention of the virgin birth anywhere before the 9th decade and that the narratives of the ascension and Pentecost did not appear until the 10th decade. The New Testament does not agree on such basic issues as the identity of the twelve disciples or the details of Easter. Why has none of this been made available in churches or been discovered by those who pose as the church's secular critics?
    The New Testament also introduces us to a group of characters who are far more likely to be literary creations than they are to be literal. Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade. Paul, writing between 51 and 64 CE, appears never to have heard of the tradition that one of the twelve was a traitor. In addition to that, every detail of the New Testament portrait of Judas can be located in other traitor stories in the Hebrew Scriptures. If a major figure like Judas is not real then what about such lesser characters as Nicodemus, the Samaritan woman by the well, Lazarus, miraculously raised from the dead four days after being buried, or even the "Beloved Disciple?" All of them, I now believe, were created to illustrate a theme."

    Do you agree or disagree, in general?

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.../why-i-wrote-re-claiming...