The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #87904   Message #1645434
Posted By: Don Firth
09-Jan-06 - 10:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Religion=good folk doing bad things?
Subject: RE: BS: Religion=good folk doing bad things?
All religions I've heard of preach peace, justice, and love and caring for one's fellow humans.

By sifting through and carefully selecting certain passages from the Koran or the Bible (or other such religious scriptures), taking them out of context and reinterpreting them, people who are hell-bent (!) on mayhem can usually find something that will justify their actions to themselves, even if to no one else, not even (particularly not even) to those who subscribe to the real, fundamental principles of the same faith.

One could reasonably argue that there are two radically different kinds of "fundamentalist." Those who take the scriptures as literal history, and those who recognize mythology for what it is and grasp the fundamental truth of the principles expressed by the mythology. Same scripture. Radically different beliefs. And behavior.

I just read the interview with JC, Little Hawk. Good. I think that captures the essence of the whole thing. "Just be nice to each other. And as far as the rest of it is concerned, not only do you not have a clue, you'll never really know what's actually going on anyway, so let the mystery be and don't get your knickers in a twist!"

And as far as Pat Roberson is concerned,
[Funky guitar intro.]
Coo coo kachoo, Reverend Roberson,
Jesus really doesn't like your show!
No! No! No! Ho ho ho!
Don Firth

(I'm not songwriter, but somebody oughta write some more verses to that.)