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Originally Posted by Mightyboosh
I think I'm going to enjoy discussions with you, when I can work out what you're saying.
I've said it before and I'll state it again here: I do troll, but as a method of dismissal designed to induce natural unfettered outrage.
We don't see eye to eye on everything, but as far as constructive discussion goes, yeah.
The fact that sometimes I nonchalantly set the bar way too high is not for it to be caught on the first attempt. It'd be pointless otherwise, because "showing your work" is so essential to self-reflection.
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So, yes, I didn't imagine that this discovery would rock the religious world, I did think it might be problematic for some.
It's not on a scientific depth with the
h. naledi discovery, but that is a different field of contemplation. Physical archaeology has barely wiped the dust off the surface of humanity so far.
Spiritual archaeology is much further well along. Awkward as the discovery is, it's little to do with what faith and belief is for most and the people who do acknowledge and want to take apart this document well should.
Take Francis' extremely recent invocation the other day: Chill, we're all people here, try to be a little more understanding.
And besides, the Abrahamic faiths (Christianity in particular) have splintered so far that you now find sects that have more to do with Islam and/or Judaism.
I saw a Jews for Jesus billboard this morning on my way in. Well, yeah. But the most comic aspect of it (not ha-ha funny but...) was the historical context and misinterpretations. After all, Isa is a reasonably important figure in Islam.
So the expansion of understanding comes not only into accumulating complexity of intellectual grounding on doctrine, but assessing documents like these and figuring out which parts fit into the overall picture.
Probably won't bother fly-by-monthly-commercial-lease-keep-the-reverend-in-BMW churches none, but that's the lot.