Perils of Biblical literalism

March 27th, 2016 by Charles Cameron

[ by Charles Cameron — okay, i’m sure this was unintentional ]

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DQ CIA vs DOD Syria

Hey, fellas — this is really taking the literal interpretation of scripture a bit too literally..

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Sources:

  • King James Version, Matthew 6.3

  • Chicago Tribune, CIA-armed militias are shooting at Pentagon-armed ones in Syria

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    1. Scott:

      March 28th, 2016 at 1:13 am

      Made me think of this old joke, Charles:
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      A man was depressed and opened the Bible randomly to a page to see what God would say to him and he came across the verse “And Judas hung himself…” Horrified, he opened the Bible again at random and saw the random phrase, “Go and do likewise”. Dejected, he opened the Bible again one final time and came to the verse, “What you must do, do quickly”.

    2. Charles Cameron:

      March 28th, 2016 at 5:03 am

      Ha!
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      There’s footnote to a letter Carl Jung wrote to Michael Fordham:

      As he recounts in New Developments (p.49) , F. had consulted the I Ching
      for clarification on a certain problem, and after getting an answer immediately consulted it again.
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      He obtained Hexagram 4, “Youthful Folly,” where The Judgment says:
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      “the young fool seeks me.
      At the first oracle I inform him .
      If he asks two or three times, it is importunity.
      If he importunes, I give him no information.

      In the body of his letter, Jung had written:

      The experience you had with the I Ching, calling you to order when trying to tempt it a second time also happened to me in 1920 when I first experimented with it.
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      It also gave me a wholesome shock and at the same time it opened wholly new vistas to me.

    3. Charles Cameron:

      March 28th, 2016 at 3:15 pm

    4. Charles Cameron:

      March 28th, 2016 at 3:26 pm

      Just for the picture, really — I’m assuming the correction just above from War on the Rocks is correct —