Not exact matches
The great fallacy of this authors argument is it fails to acknowledge the HIGHLY
subjective nature of any modern effort to translate the
true meaning of ancient religious texts.
Conservatives cherry - pick those passages that support their conservative view of God based on their conservative ego, and vice versa, where liberals are concerned... and there is NO way to ascertain which is
true, except on a wholly
subjective, personal level, thus it will never be proven objectively, since Spirit, by it's very
nature, has absolutely nothing at all to do with the flesh and whatever seems to be happening on this earth, because Spirit is completely opposite, and therefore invisible to the naked human eye, being of the mind only, and therefore unprovable.
It is based on the conviction that the Christian scriptures give a unified, consistent account of the
nature and destiny of humanity and cosmos, that is at once existentially
true (it speaks to our
subjective need for order and meaning in our personal existence) and cosmologically
true (it gives a
true and adequate picture of the way our world objectively is and will be).
Obviously, the film leans in the direction of peace, but it's as
subjective as a documentary could possibly be on this subject, and it definitely makes one think of the
true consequences of war, the
nature of American imperialism, and how it all relates to our current situation in Iraq and the rest of the world.