You'd have to watch a lot of TV to encounter language as musical or profound as that."
Carl
Yes, that's sublime, Carl! You have to read a lot of literature, not just TV, to find a passage of equal power. Paul is a mystery to me, though. I put the blame for most of what I dont like about Xianity on him, but he was clearly a charismatic figure and a profound thinker (blogger?).
Eddie Izzard does a brilliant bit on St Paul, miming a Corinthian who is being driven crazy by SP's incessant letters to them. "You answer him this time! Nah, I did it last time. Why can't he just leave us alone!"
Bob W
--- Carl Remick <carlremick at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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