Re:I Would Rather Be Herod’s Pig: The History of a Taboo
by baldfat on Thursday October 15, 2015 @01:03PM
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If I could teach everyone one thing it would be to understand as best you can what other people believed in different times.
So called "Biblical Scholars" mess this up all the time and put modern thought into ANE practice.
Case "The rain falls on the just and the unjust." They say this all the time when something bad happens. If you lived in a place where your food is dependent on rain the rain is the good thing. So instead of man bad things happen to everyone it really is good thing happen to everyone. Meaning the whole idea of Karma is broken and you do bad things and still good thing will happen to you from time to time. Doesn't mean your great because you got rich or lucky.
So called "Biblical Scholars" mess this up all the time and put modern thought into ANE practice.
Case "The rain falls on the just and the unjust." They say this all the time when something bad happens. If you lived in a place where your food is dependent on rain the rain is the good thing. So instead of man bad things happen to everyone it really is good thing happen to everyone. Meaning the whole idea of Karma is broken and you do bad things and still good thing will happen to you from time to time. Doesn't mean your great because you got rich or lucky.