tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10032287.post150349795800265906..comments2023-09-08T00:47:50.511-07:00Comments on Naked Reflections: Poetry and ScriptureStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02549770321948541384noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10032287.post-31064006028182263572007-01-21T21:31:00.000-08:002007-01-21T21:31:00.000-08:00God told Abraham to sacrifice his son. The bible d...God told Abraham to sacrifice his son. The bible doesn't say that Abraham was hearing voices, or that he was tricked, or drunk or having bad judgment. The bible says God tells Abraham to sacrifice his son and Abraham obeys. And Gagdad calls God a "psychotic, child-hating 'god'." <br /><br />Then Gagdad pretends to look down his nose in ridicule at the oafishness and insensitivity of someone who wonders how to make sense of the narrative cruelty of God. Gagdad is criticizing Nagarjuna for something he does himself. That contributes to the hostility.<br /><br />I appreciate that Nagarjuna has the integrity and the faith to recognize that his doubts are serious. It is a false piety to say that God is 'psychotic' and 'child hating' and present it as though it were a compliment.copithornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08949020666425985657noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10032287.post-5869236232119829542007-01-21T19:32:00.000-08:002007-01-21T19:32:00.000-08:00"What justification IS there when the story's take..."What justification IS there when the story's taken literally?"<br /><br />Uhm... Nags? It's Poetry not history, to take it literally is to destroy it. Why do you have difficulty with poetry? Two possibilities. <br /><br />One, the 'poetry' you read isn't poetry. Rhyming words, or obscure imitations of depth don't a poem make - singing them with superb harmonies may make them into a good song, but still not poetry.<br /><br />Two, without recognizing that there is Truth, and not many little equaly valid though opposing relative truths, you've no depth to draw the poems meaning from. Where you should have a deep well, instead you've got a gazillion dixie cups. Difficult to dip a bucket into a dixie cup. Integrating all the dixie cups will just make a big puddle. <br /><br />You need a Well Nags, a single deep one with sweet clear water in it.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10032287.post-38362061727949426492007-01-21T18:27:00.000-08:002007-01-21T18:27:00.000-08:00Without reading the essay, I already know that you...Without reading the essay, I already know that you pose a false dilemma. For the person in question is clearly neither an "idiot" nor a "moron." However, what remains to be determined is whether he's right about the essay and its author.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02549770321948541384noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10032287.post-1510655776017617942007-01-20T18:04:00.000-08:002007-01-20T18:04:00.000-08:00Back in July of last year Gagdad wrote a post in w...Back in July of last year Gagdad wrote a post in which he described the story of Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac as an story written in bad faith. Gagdad interpreted the story out of existence, saying that it is a story of the Jews overcoming a false, barbaric "God."<br /><br />http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2006/07/crack-and-crock-at-foundation-of.html<br /><br />So as is characteristic with Bob, he is criticizing the things he does himself all the time. I stopped participating at that blog because Gagdad doesn't have a pretense of intellectual integrity. His purpose is just to scavenge for enemies.copithornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08949020666425985657noreply@blogger.com