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"Orlando Enrique Fiol" > wrote in message
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Well, all I can say is...thank God that we have *you* to interpret our
religions for us! All those centuries of ignorance, and then you came along
to lead us out of darkness. LMAO

Cheri


> Most religions intentionally blur the lines between God's laws and Man's
> laws,
> to the point where the hapless practitioner can't tell the difference.
> Some guy
> figures out that if he wants to stay king and ensure that right for his
> successive generations, the best way to do it is to say that God gave him
> the
> right to rule. Some rabbi comes up with the idea that the more minutia he
> and
> his fellow clergy prescribe to orthodox Jews, the more future generations
> will
> depend on rabbinical wisdom for everything. Some priest comes up with a
> link
> between Jesus' crucifixion and fish on Fridays, proclaims it as God's law
> and
> ensures that ignorant Catholics will respect that Man-made tradition for
> centuries. I hope you see a pattern here. Religious clergy don't want
> people
> thinking for themselves; that's why the Bible and Mass were kept in
> incomprehensible Latin until Vatican II, and orthodox Jews rarely read the
> Torah outside of schul or in translation. The idea is for worshipers not
> to
> think for themselves via direct access to God's word. Access is mediated
> by
> language, special scrolls, special churches or synagogue settings. Then,
> the
> Word is mediated by exegetical or hermeneutic interpretation, which means
> worshipers aren't supposed to make whatever they will from direct access
> to
> God's word; they're supposed to depend on rabbis, theologians, priests,
> bishops, popes and even saints to interpret scripture. All this is of
> course
> nonsense. God has always made His word directly accessible. When the
> Jewish
> people spoke and wrote Hebrew, He gave them Torah in their own language.
> But
> when Hebrew ceased being the lingua franca for Jews, they needed rabbis
> specially trained in Hebrew to read scripture. The same held true for
> Catholics
> and Latin scripture until Martin Luther translated the Bible into German.
> The
> clergy have purposely withheld scriptures from the masses for centuries
> because
> direct access to scriptures would diminish their choke hold over
> worshipers. If
> people could read the word autonomously, they might just get the notion
> that
> all these laws are ridiculous, which we can't have. That's why we have a
> situation today where people like Ellen are worried about not being able
> to say
> meaningful sabbath prayers without first consuming bread. She's only
> worried
> about this because her rabbis have told her what they take to be God's
> final
> pronouncement on this matter. Of course, there are plenty of Jews who find
> themselves miraculously able to worship meaningfully without eating bread
> before sabbath prayers. Either those conservative and reform Jews have got
> it
> all wrong or just maybe, it is in fact the orthodox Jews whose endless
> tomes of
> laws keep them imprisoned in anachronistic bubbles and ultimately separate
> from
> God.
>
> Orlando