One of my friends (whom I haven't seen for a while now, unfortunately) has studied a bunch of different religions, and during a cast party we got into a huge discussion about creation stories, and how much a lot of them have in common (The flood that wipes out most of the world showing up in many of them, for instance) and that was a fun night.
Unfortunately, the only other time I really came close to a discussion like that was in Philosophy class, when our teacher started to talk about how Christianity and Judaism and Islam have quite a bit in common, especially in the early books, but before she could really explain, this girl threw a *FIT*. "My religion doesn't have anything in common with Islam! Quit saying that. It doesn't. If you keep it up I'm going to leave."
By this point I was like, "Fine, go," but the teacher instead switched topics. :-P
Meanwhile, I haven't even made it through the Bible yet. lol Getting there. But I am finding some really interesting essays about interpretation of different passages, both online and off.
For instance, I'd heard more than once from people that childbirth was painful because God was punishing woman specifically for Eve eating the apple. But the study notes in my Bible brought up another possibility-- that *mankind* itself was being punished for the sin of not trusting God, and the 'pain' referred to about childbirth was the pain of knowing that the child would now be born into a world filled with sin.
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Date: 2005-10-22 03:09 pm (UTC)One of my friends (whom I haven't seen for a while now, unfortunately) has studied a bunch of different religions, and during a cast party we got into a huge discussion about creation stories, and how much a lot of them have in common (The flood that wipes out most of the world showing up in many of them, for instance) and that was a fun night.
Unfortunately, the only other time I really came close to a discussion like that was in Philosophy class, when our teacher started to talk about how Christianity and Judaism and Islam have quite a bit in common, especially in the early books, but before she could really explain, this girl threw a *FIT*. "My religion doesn't have anything in common with Islam! Quit saying that. It doesn't. If you keep it up I'm going to leave."
By this point I was like, "Fine, go," but the teacher instead switched topics. :-P
Meanwhile, I haven't even made it through the Bible yet. lol Getting there. But I am finding some really interesting essays about interpretation of different passages, both online and off.
For instance, I'd heard more than once from people that childbirth was painful because God was punishing woman specifically for Eve eating the apple. But the study notes in my Bible brought up another possibility-- that *mankind* itself was being punished for the sin of not trusting God, and the 'pain' referred to about childbirth was the pain of knowing that the child would now be born into a world filled with sin.
I love this stuff. lol