Lately I've been wondering a lot of motives behind the belief to literal printed word. This began with the "gay-discussion" in Finland and it's relation to religion. One after an other there's been marching on stage an seemingly endless line of people who read the bible literally.
After all, we all know the holy texts are printed and written by man. Even the contents has been voted for centuries in a different convents and meetings. I mean the words doesn't magically burn on paper as a result of divine mass performed on full moon nights. Voting of contents is not even a near to a divine method to me. I could argue about the law of our country to be of a divine source based on that statement.
For me the divinity has always been in the content that is studied through religion's structures and interpretation through the framework the content is presented - whether it be geographical or question of time the religion is born. Also the symbolic structures presented help to interpret the real message which is to me usually a lot more than the words itself. I mean word God consists of letter g, o and d and there is no grammatic rule to write g in capital if those three words just occur one after the other in certain order. The capital use of word comes from the deeper meaning behind the word.
I do not know what need it fills to follow the literal meaning which usually also includes taking the sentences out of their context. I do not understand what personal need it fills to try to fill the literal teachings of human written texts. I guess here's a lot of contemplation to be done by me.
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