Showing posts with label Idolatry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Idolatry. Show all posts
Thursday, September 14, 2023

No condemnation?

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A reason for this [that David's sacrificing as he moved the ark wasn't condemned] may be that the ark is part of Yahweh’s constellat...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2022

Unfortunate reversal

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Behind the line of argument here [Rom 1:23] would seem to be the biblical tradition, stemming from Gen 1:26–28, where human beings, created ...
Tuesday, March 05, 2019

Divine presence

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We may conclude that the image functioned in the cult as a mediator of the divine presence. It was the means by which humans gained access t...
Sunday, July 01, 2018

Bring out the stones!

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It's that time of year again when the christian nationalists get to turn the worship of God into the worship of country. Well, they alwa...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Those blasted atheists!

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When considered as a religion in that time, the most obvious oddity was Christianity’s “atheism”—that is, the refusal to worship the traditi...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

What are they thinking?!

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Having adopted the new stance demanded by their conversion to Christian faith, they were to withdraw particularly from making sacrificial of...
Monday, April 10, 2017

They have an excuse. What about you?

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The difference and distinguishing feature of the early Christian stance agains “idolatry” is this: In the eyes of ancient pagans, the Jews’ ...
Tuesday, April 04, 2017

Gods, gods, and still more gods!

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In addition to such “high” deities, there were also lesser and other divine beings that, nevertheless, figured regularly in religious practi...
Wednesday, December 28, 2016

It's alive!

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The rituals outlining these procedures and the accompanying incantations are known collectively by the Babylonian titles mīs pî (“washing ...
Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Don't sell yourself short

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A metal or stone image ( ṣelem ) of a god cannot see or hear or act and so cannot represent the living Jehovah. The only authorized image ( ...
Monday, March 21, 2016

Overreach

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To enhance its image the Gun Empire boasts of pure American values, yet preaches insurrection and plots the overthrow of a democratically el...
Friday, March 18, 2016

Violence is the answer!

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When violence and guns are destroying the character and moral fiber of our nation, it is of infinite importance that the faith community wak...
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I'd say it is an epidemic

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Every American today lives on the slippery slope of gun violence and each of us is endangered because public safety is not a national priori...
Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Making the world safe...

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Enough people believe more guns will resolve human conflicts to make this country the most dangerous in the developed world. With 300 millio...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

It's all around you

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Violence is the ethos of our times. It is the spirituality of the modern world. It is accorded the status of a religion, demanding from its ...
Friday, March 11, 2016

And when money talks, death results

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For decades church folk pleaded with elected leaders to enact balanced legislation, but they turned a deaf ear. They listened only to those ...
Friday, March 04, 2016

I agree

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Ted Gossard has summed up my feelings about this election year wonderfully well: I am reticent to write on American politics for a good nu...

Of course it's logical—which is why it won't happen

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The gun lobby will loudly proclaim that gun control will never work because “the criminals will always get their guns and good law abiding ...
Thursday, March 03, 2016

Feel Safer?

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A gun kept in the home for protection is at least 11 times more likely to kill or wound a family member or friend, or be stolen and used in ...
Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Yep. The US is in first place...

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When all murders of civilians in all the developed countries of the world are tabulated, 86 percent occur in the United States.— America and...