Top o' the tower, to ya.
I have a theory on religion. Those of you who have known me for a while have heard this theory before. Don't want to hear it again? Move along, little doggie...
Here we go...
There is a story in the bible about The Tower of Babel.
"Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.' Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth." (Genesis 11:1-9)
So my theory is that God destroyed the tower as well. The one true and complete religion was a big round mirror at the top of this tower. When the tower fell, the mirror shattered and all the people took a piece of this mirror to whatever land they went to and there they tried to recreate the whole mirror (true religion) from their memories and the one sliver they took with them.
In short, I believe that all religions have a sliver of the one true religion. Some pieces of the original mirror are bigger than others and have a bit more of the original religion in them. I think that someday we will get it back together again. I think that the basic message of all organized religions is the same. Be good to yourself and be good to others.
Here we go...
There is a story in the bible about The Tower of Babel.
"Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.' And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, 'Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.' And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the sons of men had built. And the LORD said, 'Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language; and this is only the beginning of what they will do; and nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them. Come, let us go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.' So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.' Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth." (Genesis 11:1-9)
So my theory is that God destroyed the tower as well. The one true and complete religion was a big round mirror at the top of this tower. When the tower fell, the mirror shattered and all the people took a piece of this mirror to whatever land they went to and there they tried to recreate the whole mirror (true religion) from their memories and the one sliver they took with them.
In short, I believe that all religions have a sliver of the one true religion. Some pieces of the original mirror are bigger than others and have a bit more of the original religion in them. I think that someday we will get it back together again. I think that the basic message of all organized religions is the same. Be good to yourself and be good to others.
Buggie spilled her guts for you at 3/29/2005 08:07:00 PM
1 Comments:
You may be right about the basic message of religion in general...unless we're talking about cults and asking people to drink poisoned kool-aid--then maybe not so much.
-M (I am an ass too and that is why we love each other)
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