Never took world religions 101.. my problem is what I was originally taught is not exactly correct.
تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين Évitez; assassiner, le viol et l'esclavage des autres Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others -----Original Message----- From: Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> To: Minds-Eye <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:48 PM Subject: Re: Mind's Eye religionçv Well, that's disappointing. Hardly heretical at all. ;) On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:46 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > I am going to leave that one alone.. no comment. . > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Évitez; assassiner, le viol et l'esclavage des autres > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> > To: Minds-Eye <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:33 PM > Subject: Re: Mind's Eye religionçv > > I think you quite missed both her meaning and her point, Allan. > > The "Religions of the Book" are referring specifically to the three > monotheistic religions which share the same roots. Christianity, Judaism, > and Islam all essentially worship the same god; a single, all powerful, > male creator figure. This is common parlance in World Religions 101. > Palestinian Christians pray to "Allah"..."God" just means "God". > > And Gabby was referring to *personal* history, meaning the specific > traditions carried down in families. She said: > > "I guess we all more or less know that the religion we were born into did > not come into effect with the book being read to us but with a life style > that can be explained by our long history described in the books." > > It wasn't our parents reading us the bible which indoctrinated us into > action; it was the chain of tradition we saw our predecessors practicing > according to the book that enforced its importance, and enforced it daily, > over our entire lives observing their reverence. > > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ¿book? The Gita and Vedas are not books? They have been around a lot >> longer than the tora has been. >> Hate to inform you Gabby but the history you have been reading is a great >> deal of fantasy. Modern archeology is not being able to verify the stories >> told. To the point I am wondering what really when on with the Jews in >> Egypt? It was not building pyramids because it turns out they were built >> by labor unions with health care.. >> >> >> تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين >> Évitez; assassiner, le viol et l'esclavage des autres >> Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Gabby <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 9:01 PM >> Subject: Mind's Eye religion >> >> Here in Europe we usually speak of the three book religions, meaning >> Jews, Christians, Muslims. I guess we all more or less know that the >> religion we were born into did not come into effect with the book being >> read to us but with a life style that can be explained by our long history >> described in the books. Of course there was meaningful life before and >> after the fixation of certain narratives in the books, but controlling the >> other or excercising power over the other is easier when you can define >> what the same page is you want others to be on. What about religion is you >> don't like? >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
