[clue-talk] How do CLUEbies vote?

[Sean LeBlanc]

On 10-01 20:00, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 10/1/07, Sean LeBlanc <seanleblanc at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> > Even a few people that are going from the assumption that the Bible is
> > absolutely true gave it one star on Amazon.
> >
> 
> A few years (well, maybe 25) back I read a presentation by a woman who
> was a Professor of Theology at Perkins School of Theology (SMU). It is
> her belief that the only new heresy in the last 1600-1800 years is the
> belief in the Bible as literal truth.

Heh. I wonder what she'd say about the sort of theory about the Bible being
about astrology such as one posed in this movie I watched (the first part
of) recently: Zeitgeist.

Could be a very old heresy, I dunno. It was a new one on me, though.

The literal part of the Bible is pretty clear, IIRC, in it's condemnation
of reading the stars, yet here is this movie proposing that the Bible (at
least NT, if I understand correctly) is really about astrology...hence all
the similarities to the dying-and-rising gods that preceded Christianity and
supposedly were also based on astrology.  I think a few sources are needed
on that one if I'm going to believe it. 

And after only a quick run through while partially distracted, I did notice
one thing - it talks about the Sun going south and seeming to "die" for Dec
22-25th, but Jesus isn't said to die on the 22nd. So that seems to be one
problem. And based on what the second part starts off with, I have to really
wonder - it starts in with that 9/11 conspiracy stuff, so I didn't bother to
watch the second or third parts.

I'd like to see more support or criticism of that theory, but a cursory
googling hasn't come up with much. The site references a few sources for
this, some of which I've actually read, like the Golden Bough (well, the
abridged one), but as it also does this for the 9/11 stuff, I remain
skeptical. 



(Another oddly apropos randomly-generated quote given what this thread's touched on)
-- 
Sean LeBlanc:seanleblanc at comcast.net  
http://sean-leblanc.blogspot.com/
You ask whether I have ever been in love: fool as I am, I am not such a fool 
as that. But if one is only to talk from first-hand experience, conversation 
would be a very poor business. But though I have no personal experience of the 
things they call love, I have what is better - the experience of Sappho, of 
Euripides, of Catallus, of Shakespeare, of Spenser, of Austen, of Bronte, of 
anyone else I have read. 
-C.S. Lewis