u don’t have to be a moron to see the truth
For some reason, I received the comment below personally, but it didn’t show up on the blog. I’m not even sure to which of my postings it was responding, but my guess is that it was stimulated by the “ ‘Revelations’ Exposes Itself” section. Here it is:
“Who the hell are u to jepordise [sic] Jesus Christ?? He died and took our place so that we can have his peace. I bet u never had that kind of peace in your life u moron! “ - Posted by Anonymous to The Uke Man Speaks at 4/16/2005 03:23:00 AM
Well, first I’d like to say that if Jesus has the power to grant Mr./Ms. Anonymous peace, the Lord must have been asleep or on vacation when that comment was conceived. Sounds pretty agitated to me.
Secondly, while I’m not religious (Christian or otherwise), I respect Jesus; “Anonymous” will have some difficulty finding anything in my blog that tries “to jepordise [sic] Jesus Christ” – whatever that is supposed to mean. I don’t think I’ve even mentioned Jesus previously. And this points out one problem I have with some folks who claim to follow the “Prince of Peace.”
They either can’t read very well for understanding, or they willfully choose not to. They think like Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass who said: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.” When they read, write, or hear a word, it apparently means whatever they’d like it to mean. That works out well for them, but it destroys any hope of communicating with anyone else. Worse, it makes a mockery of anything linguistic, including the “Holy Bible.”
Religion is totally a matter of faith. There is no searching via the senses for facts to support the acceptance of a particular deity, dogma, or practice; one simply submits blindly to the religion. One does not become Christian via studying the physical reality of the material world, but by accepting the spiritual authority of the Bible, a book consisting of words. One submits to the authority of the “divine word of God” as “revealed” in a book consisting of words.
And there’s the rub: words – words and Humpty Dumpty.
Different religions put their faith in different books. Different Christians look to different Bibles; e.g. Catholics and Baptists recognize different content. A single Christian group – say Presbyterians – will read the “same” Bible, but in English, German, Chinese, and many other languages. Within these languages are different translations using different words purporting to say the same thing (e.g. “King James” and the “Living Bible”). Almost none of the Bibles read today are in the same language that it originally appeared in; and the original from which all the rest have evolved wasn’t written itself until many years after the death of Jesus; nor was it likely written in Jesus’s native language . Yessir!! A lot of words, different words, in different languages, all claiming to be THE authority upon which one should base his faith.
Now with all this room so generously provided for Humpty Dumpty to make the Bible mean whatever he wants it to mean, it should come as no surprise that for two thousand years people have been oppressing, enslaving, and killing people in the name of God, and justifying it with Humpty Dumpty interpretations of their “holy” book.
They’ll mess with people of different Gods. They’ll mess with people of the same God with a different name. They’ll mess with people of the same God with the same name. They’ll mess with people of no god. They will discriminate, persecute, and kill them for the glory of THEIR God and justify it on the “holy” WORDS in their book – sometimes the same words that those they persecute believe in but interpret differently.
These people are sick, megalomaniacs. They claim their fear, prejudice, and hatred are loving acts supported by the “holy word,” but that resisting their mistreatment constitutes evil persecution of their warped “faith.” Let me put it another way: they insist that hatred for gays and Jews and independent women, for example, is nothing more than God’s will, but resisting that hatred constitutes persecution of God’s faithful servants.
Just recently it was reported that at one of the military academies some of the so-called Christians were charged with calling one young man a “filthy Jew” and accusing him of killing Christ. One “Christian” leader’s response to that was: the school is persecuting Christians.
These hateful people call themselves “Christians,” but they are Bizarro Land Christians, Faux-Christians, Anti-Christ-ians, Humpty Dumpty Christian Fascists who insist that whatever they say is what Jesus meant -- neither more nor less.
u don’t have to be a moron to see how sadly deranged that is.
- Uke Man
“Who the hell are u to jepordise [sic] Jesus Christ?? He died and took our place so that we can have his peace. I bet u never had that kind of peace in your life u moron! “ - Posted by Anonymous to The Uke Man Speaks at 4/16/2005 03:23:00 AM
Well, first I’d like to say that if Jesus has the power to grant Mr./Ms. Anonymous peace, the Lord must have been asleep or on vacation when that comment was conceived. Sounds pretty agitated to me.
Secondly, while I’m not religious (Christian or otherwise), I respect Jesus; “Anonymous” will have some difficulty finding anything in my blog that tries “to jepordise [sic] Jesus Christ” – whatever that is supposed to mean. I don’t think I’ve even mentioned Jesus previously. And this points out one problem I have with some folks who claim to follow the “Prince of Peace.”
They either can’t read very well for understanding, or they willfully choose not to. They think like Humpty Dumpty in Through the Looking Glass who said: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean -- neither more nor less.” When they read, write, or hear a word, it apparently means whatever they’d like it to mean. That works out well for them, but it destroys any hope of communicating with anyone else. Worse, it makes a mockery of anything linguistic, including the “Holy Bible.”
Religion is totally a matter of faith. There is no searching via the senses for facts to support the acceptance of a particular deity, dogma, or practice; one simply submits blindly to the religion. One does not become Christian via studying the physical reality of the material world, but by accepting the spiritual authority of the Bible, a book consisting of words. One submits to the authority of the “divine word of God” as “revealed” in a book consisting of words.
And there’s the rub: words – words and Humpty Dumpty.
Different religions put their faith in different books. Different Christians look to different Bibles; e.g. Catholics and Baptists recognize different content. A single Christian group – say Presbyterians – will read the “same” Bible, but in English, German, Chinese, and many other languages. Within these languages are different translations using different words purporting to say the same thing (e.g. “King James” and the “Living Bible”). Almost none of the Bibles read today are in the same language that it originally appeared in; and the original from which all the rest have evolved wasn’t written itself until many years after the death of Jesus; nor was it likely written in Jesus’s native language . Yessir!! A lot of words, different words, in different languages, all claiming to be THE authority upon which one should base his faith.
Now with all this room so generously provided for Humpty Dumpty to make the Bible mean whatever he wants it to mean, it should come as no surprise that for two thousand years people have been oppressing, enslaving, and killing people in the name of God, and justifying it with Humpty Dumpty interpretations of their “holy” book.
They’ll mess with people of different Gods. They’ll mess with people of the same God with a different name. They’ll mess with people of the same God with the same name. They’ll mess with people of no god. They will discriminate, persecute, and kill them for the glory of THEIR God and justify it on the “holy” WORDS in their book – sometimes the same words that those they persecute believe in but interpret differently.
These people are sick, megalomaniacs. They claim their fear, prejudice, and hatred are loving acts supported by the “holy word,” but that resisting their mistreatment constitutes evil persecution of their warped “faith.” Let me put it another way: they insist that hatred for gays and Jews and independent women, for example, is nothing more than God’s will, but resisting that hatred constitutes persecution of God’s faithful servants.
Just recently it was reported that at one of the military academies some of the so-called Christians were charged with calling one young man a “filthy Jew” and accusing him of killing Christ. One “Christian” leader’s response to that was: the school is persecuting Christians.
These hateful people call themselves “Christians,” but they are Bizarro Land Christians, Faux-Christians, Anti-Christ-ians, Humpty Dumpty Christian Fascists who insist that whatever they say is what Jesus meant -- neither more nor less.
u don’t have to be a moron to see how sadly deranged that is.
- Uke Man
1 Comments:
Tom-
Your reply was worth the wait! I don't know how you do it, but you always find the way to say it!
Hope he/she/it gets the point and that maybe someday, they will find theirs!
Phyll
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