Posted: Feb 26, 2010 6:30 pm
Apollonius wrote:
They are different. The believer is sucked into the emotional story of suffering for a reason. They think this happened because people were sinners, and god was willing to let his kid be treated that way to somehow shame them into thinking that they should feel guilty for this sin, and look what happened as a result.
So you believe that without these teaching the image of Jesus crucified is not moving at all? It's an image that sparks indifference?
I suggest you learn the difference between the feelings an image evokes, and the meaning we attempt to ascribe to it. The image can evoke those feelings with out any sort of rationalized meaning ascribed to it at all.
It's like the story people hear about military vets. "You better salute the flag and respect the dead, and agree with the government's wars because they died for your freedom...."
Notice here, you're speaking about an exploitation of our natural feelings, rather than being the actual source that provokes them.