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Those Convenient Metaphors
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, June 12 2008, 20:06:35 (CEST)
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The popes were spot-balls on when they condemmed the Protestant movement by saying that soon everyone would have his or her own interpretation of the Bible and there would be a marketplace of faiths each crying out against the other while extolling its own wares. But it was the Church’s fault to begin with for having made its own mish mash of holy scripture, trimming and clipping it and standing it on its head to suit greed and lust for power. What the pope really meant was that only he had the right to interpret the Bible and no one else…but his own interpretation was just as devious and self-serving as the rest would be. The pooch, in other words, had already been screwed long before Luther got a hard-on. And all the other sect leaders were merely lining up at the same trough, seeing what they could extract from what the popes had long ago turned into slop.

And so it is with metaphors and symbols. While Minime chooses to believe that the flesh and blood Jesus wants his followers to dine on is only meant to be taken metaphorically and symbolically, the poor fool takes everything else as if it was meant to be for real. Were those real fish or metaphorical ones….was a blind man made to see or were they symbolic eyes? Was Lazarus really dead or only metaphorically dead…as in lost in spirit….is that a real dove or a metaphor…is paradise a real place or a symbolic rest?

In other words, choose your metaphor as well as your reality. This isn’t a religion it’s a Sears and Roebuck catalogue…just select an item, fill in your name and mail it to Paradise…postage paid.



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