I love Fridays for a lot of
reasons. I eat meat because I was forced to choke down salmon croquettes for countless
Fish Only on Fridays @ St. Mary Ever A Virgin grade school. I get to pick apart
Victor "Dammit" Zammit.
The "Dammit" comes from a recording that Zammit has on his website from his attendance in a David Thompson seance. Blame spirit, not me, it was their phrasing.
In his "Weekly
Afterlife Report", "Dammit" has decided to call for the eradication of the entire
Old Testament, baby, bathwater and bathtub. His logic, or lack thereof, goes like this.
"We had a big debate and concluded...the Old Testament is irrelevant, useless and completely unnecessary. It consists of books whose origin and authors are unknown. It's about historical and or mythical events of thousands of years ago which have no meaning for modern life...The material in Genesis, Deuteronomy and the other books of the Old Testament does not come up to a minimal acceptable spiritual standard. You cannot have a major section of the Bible where the writers make out that God has a lower standard of morality than a spiritually advanced human being! It's a gross insult to our intelligence. Time for Christian Churches to completely remove the Old Testament."
wow - speaking of tall pulpits. I guess the Jews get to keep the OT as a I hear a faint sigh of relief from the Hasidics.
There are hundreds of reasons to preserve the OT but in keeping with the tone of this blog, one very good one is the link that is becoming more and more evident that there is some connection, yet to be clarified, between the beginning of Homo Sapiens and the OT...and the Sumerian cuneiform texts and several others of Vedic origin. Specifically the concept of is the genetic manipulation of the Neanderthal which resulted in the acceleration of Man from beast to human. In less than three generations.
Who, not what, did this? It could not be a possible aberration of Nature.
I don't think Vic sees the bigger picture. I would send him an email and apprise him but he never has ever answered one of dozens. Maybe I'm in his message filters to "Send To Trash". Perhaps that is where the one landed that asked for a clarification of how Zammit could repeatedly bellow on about being an "eternal being" yet include this in his book.
"We had a big debate and concluded...the Old Testament is irrelevant, useless and completely unnecessary. It consists of books whose origin and authors are unknown. It's about historical and or mythical events of thousands of years ago which have no meaning for modern life...The material in Genesis, Deuteronomy and the other books of the Old Testament does not come up to a minimal acceptable spiritual standard. You cannot have a major section of the Bible where the writers make out that God has a lower standard of morality than a spiritually advanced human being! It's a gross insult to our intelligence. Time for Christian Churches to completely remove the Old Testament."
wow - speaking of tall pulpits. I guess the Jews get to keep the OT as a I hear a faint sigh of relief from the Hasidics.
There are hundreds of reasons to preserve the OT but in keeping with the tone of this blog, one very good one is the link that is becoming more and more evident that there is some connection, yet to be clarified, between the beginning of Homo Sapiens and the OT...and the Sumerian cuneiform texts and several others of Vedic origin. Specifically the concept of is the genetic manipulation of the Neanderthal which resulted in the acceleration of Man from beast to human. In less than three generations.
Who, not what, did this? It could not be a possible aberration of Nature.
I don't think Vic sees the bigger picture. I would send him an email and apprise him but he never has ever answered one of dozens. Maybe I'm in his message filters to "Send To Trash". Perhaps that is where the one landed that asked for a clarification of how Zammit could repeatedly bellow on about being an "eternal being" yet include this in his book.
"Let me ask a direct question: what if it is true
that life goes on and on for a long, long time – maybe for thousands of years."
Maybe? Only a few thousand? New definitions of "eternal"?
Zammit's overly enthusiastic anti-religion stance is typical head down, eyes to the ground Zammit. He can't see the trees for his forest. Now that he has exposed himself as myopic on this subject, should we call for the eradication of Zammit's weekly newsrag, website and all?
If you read and interpret the OT as being only about the Hebrews monotheism, consider this from a Spiritualistic view.
"Another view of the OT is that it is full of stories of psychic
happenings which the narrators attribute to the psychic gifts of mediums
in conjunction with the supernormal power of the spirit world. One book
which takes this view is "When prophets spoke: Spiritualism in the Old
Testament," by the Rev. G. Maurice Elliott. This interpretation of the
various stories makes very good sense to me from reading the Bible.
Perhaps the Hebrew tribes did create a God in their own image and
culture, partly using psychic knowledge, which would account for the
cruelty and wars they were involved in." ~ Norman Hutt
If you read and interpret the OT as being about GOD instead of "gods"
and remove the possibility that it is a mythology about alien
intervention, then you come away with the pinpoint synopsis that most
everyone has of it. From where did that viewpoint arise?
Man-made dogmatic belief systems. The same POV that Zammit is so adamant about disparaging. It can be noted that even the most arduos of disparagers suffers from his own belief system baggage.
Man-made dogmatic belief systems. The same POV that Zammit is so adamant about disparaging. It can be noted that even the most arduos of disparagers suffers from his own belief system baggage.
As long as anyone is influenced only by the interpretations of
the OT that have been brainwashed into the minds of most Christian,
ex-Christian, Jewish and ex-Jewish, the only possible result of that indoctrination is either the blindered points of view of literal translation or the eradication mentality. Two sides of a bad penny.
Fine. Each has their own journey. But to disregard the plain and simple fact, that people, for whatever reasons, have chosen to esteem the OT, is knee-jerk silliness. That fact of its acceptance alone is good enough reason to leave it be.
Fine. Each has their own journey. But to disregard the plain and simple fact, that people, for whatever reasons, have chosen to esteem the OT, is knee-jerk silliness. That fact of its acceptance alone is good enough reason to leave it be.
