[Mary] > > The Intellectual Level would not exist were it not for Monotheism. > > My idea is that when there were many gods, each with their own area > of specialty, and each requiring appeasement and worship to get things > to go your way, it was impossible to 'think outside the god box' and give > basic cause and effect it's due.
Mary you are partially right on that. The monotheist God is actually many personality and gods all rolled up into one. I just finished listening to the Bill Moyers series called genesis, in which Moyers spend 10 separate hours discussion certain passages of the Old Testament. Mainly the stories that had the most effect. The expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Cain and Abel, Noah and the flood, Abraham and his wife, mistress and 2 children, Jacob and Esau and Moses. All through out the discussions it was interesting to see God's actions explained as being the result of: 1. He is going through a learning process, like a child with building blocks discovering the effects of gravity 2. A multi- personality schizophrenic. All the Greek and Roman gods good and evil rolled into one. If nothing else he is Good and evil and the same time, and we, his subjects have to appease both. So in a way, you can say that the main monotheistic religion is actually polytheistic. Time and time again throughout the discussions, so much was hinging on the explanation of some Rabbinical scholar somewhere. So much was relying on having a word translated right, and how much was lost in translation. But most important of all was how much was left to the individual reader. Quality in a way was being left to mirror the individual's view on life. Khaled ____________________________________________________________ Diet Help Cheap Diet Help Tips. Click here. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=K8K_EyKbnhRZf5TAJyKNlQAAJ1BoN5MIA846iJgpKACKCvEMAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYQAAAAAA= Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
