Sunday, March 23, 2008
Fun Easter Viewing
Just like every Christmas sees it's "must have" toy or decoration, it seems now every Easter we explore some other part of the Passion of Christ (which, BTW, the Passion, or focus on the crucifixion, is a medieval invention to connect people's painful existence with that of the Christ, which changed the focus away from the teachings). This year seems to be the year we explore the actual process of death by Roman crucifixion (previous years have seen explorations of the historical places of the Passion, the Tomb of Christ - including the Jesus Family Tomb - and the madness surrounding the Da Vinci Code). So have we all had fun exploring this ancient form of torture? Do we all now know how the traditional stigmata points weren't how someone was normally nailed to a cross? So is this a result of our year long discussion of waterboarding?
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It never ceases to amaze me that the church as a whole will ignore every discovered inconsistency of what we understand of the world of 2k years ago, but will consistently adhere to the contrived, accepted dogma.
Matt, they most certainly do, even when it matters very little, and are meerly artistic devices. But then there's that whole infallibility thing.
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