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posted by [identity profile] yourprecious.livejournal.com at 08:36pm on 22/03/2009
I looked up the verses they're "summarizing" in their "insightful" picket signs using the NRSV...

Uh....

I don't know what translation they're using, but by my reading, they're both taking the verses out of context and pulling stuff out of thin air.
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posted by [identity profile] asatomuraki.livejournal.com at 08:48pm on 22/03/2009
Of course they are! That's part of the crazy. ;) There are actually some very insightful rebuttals of the crazy out there. Maybe I'll post some when I have a moment.
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posted by [identity profile] yourprecious.livejournal.com at 09:56pm on 22/03/2009
The last one is especially special.

And yeah, I'll probably do the same...sit down with my NRSV, put things in context, and type it up for my own amusement.
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posted by [identity profile] asatomuraki.livejournal.com at 05:40pm on 23/03/2009
You do that, too? LOL! I knew I couldn't be the only one, but...Still, I should have known. ;)
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posted by [identity profile] yourprecious.livejournal.com at 10:01pm on 23/03/2009
*LOL* To be fair, I didn't really get into the habit until I took a course called Women in Christianity...Loyola made you take 9 hours of religion courses. The instructor was really big on analyzing things in context. So now I do that.

That, and read lots of books about radical religious groups and cults. Uhm, and Phelps' sermons sound frighteningly similar to a few of the guys I've been studying...
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posted by [identity profile] asatomuraki.livejournal.com at 10:12pm on 23/03/2009
Well, I've been doing the whole "make notes and write an essay" thing occasionally since my tweens. *blush* Not always on religion, but just anytime something really bugged me, I'd write out my thoughts on the subject and why something I'd heard or read made no sense. Heh.
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posted by [identity profile] yourprecious.livejournal.com at 11:47pm on 23/03/2009
I like writing essays. And analyzing books. And movies. And...random things. :) I like to pick tough points of view and defend them to see if I can.

....except in this case. Well, okay, I guess some would consider my take on Christianity tough to defend.

But I can't wrap my mind around Phelps. I've JUST managed to begin wrapping my mind around polygamy after reading so much about it.
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posted by [identity profile] asatomuraki.livejournal.com at 11:01am on 24/03/2009
With Phelps, what made sense of it to me was looking at pathology more than religion. He's a sick man, but clever.
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