http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22007049/?GT1=10547Hmm. I was just working on something about cultural differences between the west and the east. Anyway, unlike the situation with that awful political cartoon, it’s very clear here that the teacher didn’t intend to insult Muslims. Any western person reading the story would say “duh, it’s obvious she meant to honor the Prophet.”
In the West, it’s just not an insult to name an animal after someone or something sacred. It’s the opposite, it’s considered
an honor for
the animal to be considered worthy enough to have the name of someone important.
Something is seriously wrong when you can no longer even differentiate between a deliberate insult and an innocent mistake. Especially when no one ever bothered to
tell her not to do stuff like that.
And you know, it’s one teddy bear in a child’s classroom. Let’s flip out a little more. They're just doing this to draw attention away from the genocide.
http://www.northernway.org/goddess.htmlI…think some of that information is wrong. Which is strange, because with the exception of one of their sources, most of their sources come from reputable people. Who I don’t remember ever saying some of that stuff- cause I own those books and I’ve read them. So about half the info on that site is correct, and half is incorrect- and you have to go in with like, little tweezers and pick it apart. Like I said before (only I notice more and more errors every time I go back) it’s a good starting point but I wouldn’t trust them to run a school based on their trad.
I also am not sure the deleted books of the Bible were “thrown out of the cannon”.
The fourth century Christians didn’t even have gunpowder yet. Although it paints a great picture.
“There’s no saving him, he took an Apocalypse of Peter to the chest.”
Had to look up some info on Alexander Waugh's "God" (his attempt to do a profile of YHVH) and I was surprised by what some people think it was supposed to be about. Or maybe I'm the one who had it "wrong". See, some of the reviews talk about what a hilarious takedown of God it is. And I suppose that if you're the type of person who really does smirk when you hear that someone actually *believes* this stuff, and you actually believe that contradictions in a mythology disprove the mythology then you're going to think this book is hilarious. And if you are a hardcore Abrahamic fundamentalist with no sense of humor, you will want to burn this book.
But I was just nodding my head and going "yeah, and...?" His description of the Canaanite pantheon doesn't disprove my faith, it just bolsters the argument for a polytheistic period in Hebrew history (and as a Near East Pagan and Goddess affirming Christian, it's less a takedown of my faith and more a bolstering of all my arguments). That's not offensive, that's something most scholars agree on, the
Bible agrees with it. Not shocked here at all- it's really only "hilarious" if either you didn't know that already or you thought somehow that Christianity, Judaism and Islam didn't.