[lbo-talk] Fwd: Rick Warren should be in prison

Carl Remick carlremick at gmail.com
Fri Sep 21 09:56:08 PDT 2007


On 9/21/07, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> ... And yes reading the gospels is a complete waste of time for someone
> searching for texts relevant to today. I wish I had the time back that I
> spend reading them. I would have learned more things of relevance today
> watching TeeVee.

Overall I agree with you and find the Bible generally a mismash of sacralized tribal lore more likely to mislead than enlighten. Still, I find some scriptural passages beautiful and insightful, e.g.:

"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." (Matthew 6:34)

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity [i.e., love], I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth.... And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity." (1 Corinthians 13)

You'd have to watch a lot of TV to encounter language as musical or profound as that.

Carl



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