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Date: 11 October 2005 12:45:20
...to someone about religion the other day. It was their fault, they started it. Buddhism to Zionism and back in half an hour. We agreed that Christianity is a pile of pants but Jesus was immensely cool. So, what did Jesus do that was so different to Christianity? Well, lets start at this theological train wreck.
A television program preceding the 1988 Winter Olympics featured blind skiers being trained for slalom skiing, impossible as that sounds. Paired with sighted skiers, the blind skiers were taught on the flats how to make right and left turns. When that was mastered, they were taken to the slalom slope, where their sighted partners skied beside them shouting, "Left!" and "Right!" As they obeyed the commands, they were able to negotiate the course and cross the finish line, depending solely on the sighted skiers' word. It was either complete trust or catastrophe.
What a vivid picture of the Christian life! In this world, we are in reality blind about what course to take. We must rely solely on the Word of the only One who is truly sighted--God Himself. His Word gives us the direction we need to finish the course. - Robert W. Sutton.
That, to use the ecclesiastically unsanctioned theological term, is bollocks. What a vivid picture of the life in slavery to impersonal duty more like. The point of religion is to enable us to use all the abilities we've been given (i.e., we are not blind!) to live life to its fullest possible extent. Blind obedience is a denial of everything good. The purpose of such nonsense as recounted above? Power and control. That's all.
Have a nice day.