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syncope at 11:52am on 05/03/2010
syncope at 11:52am on 05/03/2010Oh hai! My friend Liz just got back from the dead Florida and decided to post this journal entry that was like squirting lemon juice in my eye while stealing my last piece of cheese. But it's flocked because she wanted me to have to do all the work all over again!
I am totally ripping her off, but I know some of the regular denizens of my comments will be interested (to say the least).
"Why Is There No Jewish Narnia?" Yeah, this isn't going to be controversial AT ALL, right?
Someone I haven't heard of before is like HUH, WHAT? Liz is like "What about Neil Gaimon?" I was like "What about Michael Chabon?" These people think of everyone else.
The aptly named Asking the Wrong Questions (how much do I love that name?) explores this further.
Metafilter opines.
And I have many many thoughts about this. The first off the top is--why the fuck are angels considered inherently Christian beings and why does everyone just go along with that? They ripped that shit off as surely as everyone else did as angels are actually far older than any existent religion. However, to get further to the point, why does everyone collude on this fiction that the "Old Testament" stories are flipping Christian AT ALL? If I come sit in your house and go "MINE NOW" do I own your house? If I sit there long enough?
This has really been bothering me lately wrt to (of all bullshit) Supernatural in discussions between people that whine about how Christian the show mythology is. The existence of apocalyptic literature and angels does not Christianity make, people. Messianic/apocalyptic themes were ALSO lifted wholesale from another religion, btw. Christians really took to it, sure. It's a good story "god's gonna fix everything and the good people are going to be rewarded for being good and your asshole neighbor who never mows the lawn is going to be PUNISHED, HELL YEAH!" <---- Who doesn't love that shit? I wonder who watches all those Dead Sea Scrolls docs on the History Channel, because it sure isn't people who think that apocalyptic concepts are inherently Christian--unless you believe that Christianity is just a very tenacious and popular Jewish sect (a belief some people actually have, but don't look at me, I'm not getting into that).
I haven't heard Castiel say jack shit about his lord and savior Jesus Christ is what I'm saying here.
I am totally ripping her off, but I know some of the regular denizens of my comments will be interested (to say the least).
"Why Is There No Jewish Narnia?" Yeah, this isn't going to be controversial AT ALL, right?
Someone I haven't heard of before is like HUH, WHAT? Liz is like "What about Neil Gaimon?" I was like "What about Michael Chabon?" These people think of everyone else.
The aptly named Asking the Wrong Questions (how much do I love that name?) explores this further.
Metafilter opines.
And I have many many thoughts about this. The first off the top is--why the fuck are angels considered inherently Christian beings and why does everyone just go along with that? They ripped that shit off as surely as everyone else did as angels are actually far older than any existent religion. However, to get further to the point, why does everyone collude on this fiction that the "Old Testament" stories are flipping Christian AT ALL? If I come sit in your house and go "MINE NOW" do I own your house? If I sit there long enough?
This has really been bothering me lately wrt to (of all bullshit) Supernatural in discussions between people that whine about how Christian the show mythology is. The existence of apocalyptic literature and angels does not Christianity make, people. Messianic/apocalyptic themes were ALSO lifted wholesale from another religion, btw. Christians really took to it, sure. It's a good story "god's gonna fix everything and the good people are going to be rewarded for being good and your asshole neighbor who never mows the lawn is going to be PUNISHED, HELL YEAH!" <---- Who doesn't love that shit? I wonder who watches all those Dead Sea Scrolls docs on the History Channel, because it sure isn't people who think that apocalyptic concepts are inherently Christian--unless you believe that Christianity is just a very tenacious and popular Jewish sect (a belief some people actually have, but don't look at me, I'm not getting into that).
I haven't heard Castiel say jack shit about his lord and savior Jesus Christ is what I'm saying here.
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