Comments on: This is BS: The Story of Abraham http://jasonseiden.com/this-is-bullst-the-story-of-abraham/ LIve a better story. (Or at least tell your current one better.) Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:50:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Bohdan Rohbock http://jasonseiden.com/this-is-bullst-the-story-of-abraham/comment-page-1/#comment-5668 Bohdan Rohbock Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:57:52 +0000 http://jasonseiden.com/?p=3220#comment-5668 Interesting thought, though many stories can be reinvented to provide relevancy and still be useful. Mostly I'll just point out that most great figures (past and present) would be thrown in jail for their actions. Context is key. If I am a construction foreman and I order thirty people to do a task that will kill 80% of them (even if they succeed) I'm in jail, if I don't get lynched first. If I'm a commander during a war I might win a medal, and I almost certainly won't go to jail. And really, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. I think it's dangerous to suppose that all of human society has changed to the point that at no time and in no context is a story about faith in the face of staggering ambiguity meaningful. Interesting thought, though many stories can be reinvented to provide relevancy and still be useful.

Mostly I’ll just point out that most great figures (past and present) would be thrown in jail for their actions. Context is key. If I am a construction foreman and I order thirty people to do a task that will kill 80% of them (even if they succeed) I’m in jail, if I don’t get lynched first.

If I’m a commander during a war I might win a medal, and I almost certainly won’t go to jail. And really, there’s nothing inherently wrong with that.

I think it’s dangerous to suppose that all of human society has changed to the point that at no time and in no context is a story about faith in the face of staggering ambiguity meaningful.

]]> By: Neville http://jasonseiden.com/this-is-bullst-the-story-of-abraham/comment-page-1/#comment-5666 Neville Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:01:27 +0000 http://jasonseiden.com/?p=3220#comment-5666 The West doesn't see much adherence to ritual sacrifice...probably because of this little book called the New Testament that supersedes the blood and guts of the Abrahamic story. Holocaust, Genocide, NAMBLA, human trafficking. It takes a plurality of men to agree these things are right for these practices to exist, are you sure of mankind's evolved "ability to judge right from wrong?" Somehow a 2000 year old carpenter persists as the greatest leader the world has ever known...we don't need a better leader, we just need to be better followers. The West doesn’t see much adherence to ritual sacrifice…probably because of this little book called the New Testament that supersedes the blood and guts of the Abrahamic story.
Holocaust, Genocide, NAMBLA, human trafficking. It takes a plurality of men to agree these things are right for these practices to exist, are you sure of mankind’s evolved “ability to judge right from wrong?”
Somehow a 2000 year old carpenter persists as the greatest leader the world has ever known…we don’t need a better leader, we just need to be better followers.

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