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symbioidljA Cosmo Style Make-over for the Bible
Young evangelical Christians like Neille Sybert say a pop-influenced Bible like Revolve is not a bad idea.
"It looks totally like a magazine," says Sybert, a 19-year-old saleswoman at Loaves & Fishes Christian Store in Vista, Calif. She thinks it would appeal to young girls who might feel embarrassed carrying around a black leather tome.
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Yes, now, if you are ashamed of your beliefs, you can hide them under, not a bushel, no... but you don't have to let it shine(any xians who sang that cheesy song "This little light of mine"?)... No, don't hide it under a bushel or let it shine, just make it look like a fucking magazine. Then no-one will have to know you're a christian!!! This article is sick, and it's scary, and it goes back to the whole "mammon" thing tied in with xianity.
I date a girl once who told me about this guy she dated, who thinks xians should be rich, because it's "god's blessing", and luckily she was smarter than that. Then, she had said something about all the little trinkets they sell(My church used to have a bookstore, so maybe I kinda turned it off at the time, but I understand her completely now)... like those WWJD bracelets and shit... "Jesus loves you" pencil sharpeners. All that kind of stuff. She was a really good xian in my opinion... She questioned things, she disagreed with a lot of the bullshit.
I had an argument with Rosemary last night(not really an argument, per se)... I was reading about Hinduism, and about the merging with Brahman as the ultimate goal. And that brought out memories of what I imagined heaven to be for me. The bathing of myself in eternal love/bliss of god. I don't know if I had quite reached the point of ego dissolution, but it was close in concept to hindu thoughts... closer than the traditional view of xian heaven. I had mentioned it, and Rosemary was talking about one of her friends who see it(heaven) like "A big party in the sky"(Besides, have you ever been to a xian party? There's no fucking drugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Anyways, I was saying how I think that's just so simplistic and it really bothered me.
Rosemary ever the accepting, liberal agnostic, said she thought it's a valid belief. I'm not saying it's not valid, so much as I think it's pretty cheesy and sad and simplistic. I wouldn't just come out and rip on her friend for this, because I don't think poorly of her as a person for this belief... I just disagree with it. It causes too much ego-clinging, and this is what the big problem I have with a lot of fundie/modern xianity is this sort of ego-base.
I think that's what appeals to me about Buddhism more than most of Hinduism, because of anatta(the doctrine of non-self)... Plus, damn, the Buddhist scriptures are easier to read than the Hindu scriptures(I thinks, at least)... I mean, I've only got the Dhammapada and the Digha Nikayya, but I get into those easier than the Bhagavad Gita or the Upanishads.... I think it's just the cultural thing. Like I couldn't read the bible if I hadn't grown up in the culture. I'd be like "WTF?! what's with all these begats and shit?" I've seen a book called something like "A Hindu Catechism" and I think that would be interesting to get to read with some of the hindu scriptures. I'm interested in Hinduism, but yeah, the texts leave a bit to be desired. The teachings are quite buried... Whereas in Buddhism and Taoism, the teachings are pretty explicit and out front. Whatever.
I will post on my perceived DMT trip someday. I thought I posted it, but couldn't find anything. It's a theory I have about an experience with "demonic" influences when I was a kid...
Young evangelical Christians like Neille Sybert say a pop-influenced Bible like Revolve is not a bad idea.
"It looks totally like a magazine," says Sybert, a 19-year-old saleswoman at Loaves & Fishes Christian Store in Vista, Calif. She thinks it would appeal to young girls who might feel embarrassed carrying around a black leather tome.
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Yes, now, if you are ashamed of your beliefs, you can hide them under, not a bushel, no... but you don't have to let it shine(any xians who sang that cheesy song "This little light of mine"?)... No, don't hide it under a bushel or let it shine, just make it look like a fucking magazine. Then no-one will have to know you're a christian!!! This article is sick, and it's scary, and it goes back to the whole "mammon" thing tied in with xianity.
I date a girl once who told me about this guy she dated, who thinks xians should be rich, because it's "god's blessing", and luckily she was smarter than that. Then, she had said something about all the little trinkets they sell(My church used to have a bookstore, so maybe I kinda turned it off at the time, but I understand her completely now)... like those WWJD bracelets and shit... "Jesus loves you" pencil sharpeners. All that kind of stuff. She was a really good xian in my opinion... She questioned things, she disagreed with a lot of the bullshit.
I had an argument with Rosemary last night(not really an argument, per se)... I was reading about Hinduism, and about the merging with Brahman as the ultimate goal. And that brought out memories of what I imagined heaven to be for me. The bathing of myself in eternal love/bliss of god. I don't know if I had quite reached the point of ego dissolution, but it was close in concept to hindu thoughts... closer than the traditional view of xian heaven. I had mentioned it, and Rosemary was talking about one of her friends who see it(heaven) like "A big party in the sky"(Besides, have you ever been to a xian party? There's no fucking drugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Anyways, I was saying how I think that's just so simplistic and it really bothered me.
Rosemary ever the accepting, liberal agnostic, said she thought it's a valid belief. I'm not saying it's not valid, so much as I think it's pretty cheesy and sad and simplistic. I wouldn't just come out and rip on her friend for this, because I don't think poorly of her as a person for this belief... I just disagree with it. It causes too much ego-clinging, and this is what the big problem I have with a lot of fundie/modern xianity is this sort of ego-base.
I think that's what appeals to me about Buddhism more than most of Hinduism, because of anatta(the doctrine of non-self)... Plus, damn, the Buddhist scriptures are easier to read than the Hindu scriptures(I thinks, at least)... I mean, I've only got the Dhammapada and the Digha Nikayya, but I get into those easier than the Bhagavad Gita or the Upanishads.... I think it's just the cultural thing. Like I couldn't read the bible if I hadn't grown up in the culture. I'd be like "WTF?! what's with all these begats and shit?" I've seen a book called something like "A Hindu Catechism" and I think that would be interesting to get to read with some of the hindu scriptures. I'm interested in Hinduism, but yeah, the texts leave a bit to be desired. The teachings are quite buried... Whereas in Buddhism and Taoism, the teachings are pretty explicit and out front. Whatever.
I will post on my perceived DMT trip someday. I thought I posted it, but couldn't find anything. It's a theory I have about an experience with "demonic" influences when I was a kid...
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