RE: MD MOQ and The Problem Of Evil

From: Scott Roberts (jse885@earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Aug 21 2004 - 16:22:21 BST

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    Chuck,

    I really doubt that anyone in MOQ-discuss believes in the sort of thing
    that you are attacking. If you want to argue seriously for a secular view
    as opposed to a religious view, how about learning a little about modern,
    intellectual religion, so you actually have something worth arguing about.

    The Luke verse you cite is quite compatible with the Sermon on the Mount,
    once you think about it, and get over the gap of 2000 years in rhetorical
    style. It means that following Jesus takes precedence over social and
    familial ties, much as the MOQ says that intellectual value takes
    precedence over social value when they are in conflict. As I said in an
    earlier post, one shouldn't look to religion for comfort or easy answers
    (although I will grant that all too many do), and this verse is about that.

    - Scott

    > [Original Message]
    > From: Chuck Roghair <ctr@pacificpartssales.com>
    > To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    > Date: 8/20/2004 4:56:32 PM
    > Subject: RE: MD MOQ and The Problem Of Evil
    >
    > "Christ Cracks Me Up"
    >
    > When life's gettin' ya down and your back's against the wall don't turn to
    > booze or psychotherapy or pills; think "Fisher of Men."
    >
    > Did you miss your bus? Bird shit in your slurpy after another day of your
    > finite, insignificant life-spark sucked-off by corporate overhead
    > fluorescent lighting?
    >
    > Resist the urge to veer your rusty '87 Ford Escort into that oncoming
    > Hummer. Actually, on second thought...no, don't do it; just get turned-on
    to
    > the "Light-of-the-World."
    >
    > If people flip you off in traffic or wimpy emo-kids flick Marlboro butts
    at
    > your forehead (maybe you have a five-head, Jesus, especially if you have
    > five-head); I tell you what, you just pull your noggin out of that oven
    and
    > reach for The Bible, my friend!
    >
    > It's the impossible, three-for-one, God-the-Father-Spirit-and-Son,
    divinely
    > authorized, as well as inspired, biography of "He Who is Unknowable!"
    >
    > Maybe cost you twelve or fifteen bucks at Borders, depending on the
    version.
    >
    > Salvation lies within; it takes the form of comic relief via the
    > Lamb-of-God's wacky one-liners and sheer, raving lunacy. Sure, he was King
    > of the Jews, but more importantly, he was an incredibly cognitively
    > dissonant King of the perfectly timed, but utterly unpredictable
    > high-larious non-sequitor.
    >
    > For example, Jesus said:
    >
    > If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife,
    and
    > children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot
    > be my disciple.
    >
    > -Luke 14:26, King James Version
    >
    > Zing!
    >
    > Wonder why we don't hear that gem quoted so much? A bit of a departure
    from
    > "The Sermon on the Mount," huh?
    >
    > Now I understand Dubya's obsession. Sort of.
    >
    > Best,
    >
    > Chuck
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
    >
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