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Weekend in Review
Jun. 18th, 2007 01:14 amI have had some lovely days off. It was nice to have 5 days off from work. I have spent it doing some home organization, some goofing off, some reading, and some social activities. Of course, there was the Police on Wednesday night.
Friday was standard Hang-out faire with the folks up in Woodland.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rubbrduckage kindly accepted wine club shipments for me during the week and I picked them up. Little A was cute, in my estimation, but there was evidence to suggest he had been quite a little bastard prior to the time I had seen him.
Saturday I awoke in a bit of a foul mood. I did not sleep well and I had a headache. I think there was some confluence of allergies and sinus discomfort combined with some kind of crick in my neck. Eventually they worked themselves out and in the evening G and I went to the Crawdad Festival. I had never been. I likely won't go again. Though people watching was fun. However, the people and crawdads just aren't good enough.
Furthermore, some fight between gangsta types broke out towards the end of the evening. There was a high density of caucasion, hispanic, and african-american all possession a low level of decency. Add beer to the equation and you get a fist fight near the exit. Nifty.
I'm currently reading a book by Bart Ehrman called, "Misquoting Jesus". It's a very interesting introduction to Textual Criticism with regard to the Bible. I hadn't realized that there were *no* originals of the gospels from the New Testament at all. Much of what comprises the translations of the New Testament were copes that were made a few centuries after the death of Jesus. And there are many errors among the copies. The joys of transcription errors. I'm half way through the book. Apparently Ehrman started out and an Evangelical Christian and ended up an agnostic by the time he wrote this book (during this time he acquired advanced degrees at Princeton Seminary, etc.).
Do I think his revelations should render belief in God defunct? No, but given the fact that texts were modified to satisfy agendas of Christian leadership throughout the centuries, I certainly feel more convinced than ever that the Bible should not be used as a justification for public policy.
I was really disappointed to find out that the story of Jesus and the "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" story was not part of the original gospels written by his disciples. That story appeared centuries later. Such a pity. It's such a great story.
That said, it's a good book, and I'll likely be setting aside some time to read some refutations of his book. It's bound to get a little dicey, though, because it seems to me that textual criticism is quite an arduous field. I started to read this, and perhaps I'm just tired, but I began to glaze over.
Friday was standard Hang-out faire with the folks up in Woodland.
rubbrduckage kindly accepted wine club shipments for me during the week and I picked them up. Little A was cute, in my estimation, but there was evidence to suggest he had been quite a little bastard prior to the time I had seen him.Saturday I awoke in a bit of a foul mood. I did not sleep well and I had a headache. I think there was some confluence of allergies and sinus discomfort combined with some kind of crick in my neck. Eventually they worked themselves out and in the evening G and I went to the Crawdad Festival. I had never been. I likely won't go again. Though people watching was fun. However, the people and crawdads just aren't good enough.
Furthermore, some fight between gangsta types broke out towards the end of the evening. There was a high density of caucasion, hispanic, and african-american all possession a low level of decency. Add beer to the equation and you get a fist fight near the exit. Nifty.
I'm currently reading a book by Bart Ehrman called, "Misquoting Jesus". It's a very interesting introduction to Textual Criticism with regard to the Bible. I hadn't realized that there were *no* originals of the gospels from the New Testament at all. Much of what comprises the translations of the New Testament were copes that were made a few centuries after the death of Jesus. And there are many errors among the copies. The joys of transcription errors. I'm half way through the book. Apparently Ehrman started out and an Evangelical Christian and ended up an agnostic by the time he wrote this book (during this time he acquired advanced degrees at Princeton Seminary, etc.).
Do I think his revelations should render belief in God defunct? No, but given the fact that texts were modified to satisfy agendas of Christian leadership throughout the centuries, I certainly feel more convinced than ever that the Bible should not be used as a justification for public policy.
I was really disappointed to find out that the story of Jesus and the "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" story was not part of the original gospels written by his disciples. That story appeared centuries later. Such a pity. It's such a great story.
That said, it's a good book, and I'll likely be setting aside some time to read some refutations of his book. It's bound to get a little dicey, though, because it seems to me that textual criticism is quite an arduous field. I started to read this, and perhaps I'm just tired, but I began to glaze over.
