slim
02-27-2006, 11:09 AM
I need more faith .......Keep the faith. When I was a kid ........ I had a lot of "blind" faith
http://japundit.com/archives/2006/02/26/2035/
Can I get a witness?
Walk into a Catholic church and you’re immediately struck by the sight of a large crucifix on the wall. Suspended from the cross is the figure of the executed Christ, sometimes with a crown of bloody thorns. One look is enough to tell you all you need to know about the philosophy and the spirit guiding the activities conducted in that building.
Walk into some Shinto shrines in Japan, however, and you might be startled by the sight. Shinto isn’t really analogous to Christianity, and you can’t always figure out what’s going on from the objects you see. Nonetheless, one look is enough to tell you that the philosophy and spirit guiding whatever activities may be conducted there are entirely different.
http://japundit.com/images/kangi2.gif
When you enter a Catholic church, you dip your fingers into holy water and make the sign of the cross. At the Kangi shrine, you rub one of these two objects with a prayer for marital harmony—males rub the female object, and females rub the male object. (Though I suppose if your sexual preferences lie elsewhere and you rubbed an object corresponding to your own sex, it’s unlikely that anyone would object.) The specially-folded white paper on the objects is called shide, a ritual implement in Shinto. It’s used as part of the purification process for items offered to the divinities.
Take a few minutes to consider all the implications of that. Besides the one that gives a new connotation to the term “holy roller”, of course.
I’ve made the point here before, but I think it bears repeating. The people who grow up in a culture where these sorts of objects and behavior are not particularly unusual and not considered abnormal are bound to be different in basic ways from the people who grow up elsewhere.
Posted by Ampontan @ 12:01 am
Slim
http://japundit.com/archives/2006/02/26/2035/
Can I get a witness?
Walk into a Catholic church and you’re immediately struck by the sight of a large crucifix on the wall. Suspended from the cross is the figure of the executed Christ, sometimes with a crown of bloody thorns. One look is enough to tell you all you need to know about the philosophy and the spirit guiding the activities conducted in that building.
Walk into some Shinto shrines in Japan, however, and you might be startled by the sight. Shinto isn’t really analogous to Christianity, and you can’t always figure out what’s going on from the objects you see. Nonetheless, one look is enough to tell you that the philosophy and spirit guiding whatever activities may be conducted there are entirely different.
http://japundit.com/images/kangi2.gif
When you enter a Catholic church, you dip your fingers into holy water and make the sign of the cross. At the Kangi shrine, you rub one of these two objects with a prayer for marital harmony—males rub the female object, and females rub the male object. (Though I suppose if your sexual preferences lie elsewhere and you rubbed an object corresponding to your own sex, it’s unlikely that anyone would object.) The specially-folded white paper on the objects is called shide, a ritual implement in Shinto. It’s used as part of the purification process for items offered to the divinities.
Take a few minutes to consider all the implications of that. Besides the one that gives a new connotation to the term “holy roller”, of course.
I’ve made the point here before, but I think it bears repeating. The people who grow up in a culture where these sorts of objects and behavior are not particularly unusual and not considered abnormal are bound to be different in basic ways from the people who grow up elsewhere.
Posted by Ampontan @ 12:01 am
Slim