K.D. Lightner
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I guess one problem I have had with people proselytizing their religion is that they quote the Judeo/Christian bible, as if by quoting it, we who do not believe as they do are going to automatically accept that it is the word of a diety. In some cases the absolute, literal word of a diety.
Every religion I have read about has a different take on many of the passages in it, including the several hundred Protestant groups.
I have read and studied it -- as a lovely piece of literature (at least the King James verson is) and as a book that has many stories and parables, passages, some beautiful, some quite frightening, all of it written by many people, over a long period of time, then pieced together by other people, who decided to leave some things out of it because it didn't fit their agenda.
And agenda is a key word, too. If some of us are wary or even offended by proselytizing, it is that it doesn't always end there.
karol
Every religion I have read about has a different take on many of the passages in it, including the several hundred Protestant groups.
I have read and studied it -- as a lovely piece of literature (at least the King James verson is) and as a book that has many stories and parables, passages, some beautiful, some quite frightening, all of it written by many people, over a long period of time, then pieced together by other people, who decided to leave some things out of it because it didn't fit their agenda.
And agenda is a key word, too. If some of us are wary or even offended by proselytizing, it is that it doesn't always end there.
karol