tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646581.post1377825263826548163..comments2024-03-09T02:32:34.549-06:00Comments on Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Bible Makes Me SqueamishMelissa Clouthierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864991953502438461noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646581.post-791203605337034742006-10-28T14:20:00.000-06:002006-10-28T14:20:00.000-06:00Interesting concept. Some churches would scream b...Interesting concept. Some churches would scream blasphemy for sure. We are going to visit a Unitarian Church for the first time for this very reason. So much does not make sense to us anymore and "regular" church seems empty and a big social circus. Church makes me tired all the way around. I've heard that Uniterian Churches are much different. We will see!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646581.post-18221723655471599772006-10-27T22:37:00.000-06:002006-10-27T22:37:00.000-06:00Anon 7:03:
That's easy! Whatever I disagree with ...Anon 7:03:<br /><br />That's easy! Whatever I disagree with or makes me uncomfortable goes.Melissa Clouthierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15864991953502438461noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646581.post-83026791422987290692006-10-27T20:03:00.000-06:002006-10-27T20:03:00.000-06:00hmmm, how does one determine what should not be pa...hmmm, how does one determine what should not be part of the bible any longer?????Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19646581.post-49691467361830632582006-10-26T11:15:00.000-06:002006-10-26T11:15:00.000-06:00Remember the Strauss-Howe Cycle? How generational...Remember the Strauss-Howe Cycle? How generational attitudes (and the resulting Zeitgeist) falls into a four-generation, 80-90-year pattern?<br /><br />A generation hence, what "it isn't useful for today" will be different; in two generations (half a cycle), it will be completely opposite.<br /><br />Each generation "gets rid of the offending archaic stuff" as defined by their generational attitude and Zeitgeist. Each generation has a different set of "offending archaic stuff" that is irrelevant (and can be gotten rid of), saving the "important" parts (which themselves change each generation).<br /><br />After a couple cycles of this, how much will be left of the original?<br /><br />And with this specific application, will we have a Bible by then? (Along with The Koran, which by definition cannot be edited change in any way.)<br /><br /><i>(I came up with this idea for a small-press SF story where someone in the future was trying to make sense out of documentation that survived from our time. Not wanting to do the conventional "all records of the 20th Century were destroyed in a nuclear war" shtick, I came up with this alternative methodology. No nukes needed.)</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com