猶大褔音-「國家地理頻道」筆記 二之一 Gospel of Judas-NGC Notes 1 of 2
「猶大，在西方社會，是一個連狗也不會取的名子。在德國，為孩子改名為猶大更是違法。」
果然，我在namestatistics.com一查，半個叫猶大的人也沒有。我想起中國的秦檜。秦檜會否也是岳飛最可靠的朋友，他一直為岳飛提供密報，令岳飛戰無不勝。至於後來岳飛被以十二度金牌敕令回京，只因為秦檜知道此戰必死無疑，而岳飛一向高傲好勝，秦檜只好出此下策保老友一命，可惜岳飛忘恩負義，最終令事情一發不可收拾。
從我們的生活也可以理解，現實很多事情只可以秘密做，說穿了就可能會功虧一簣，歷史上又有多少人為此蒙受過不白之怨呢。我們了解歷史，亦只可以確信表面的行為結果，而人心的走向則永遠是個謎。我的習慣是，好的不怕信，壞的有保留。老董下台是一個事實，但他是否真心情願，是否出於他的腳患，我們永遠不會知曉。
專家和科技都證實這部出土的《猶大褔音》是古代之手抄本。同樣，內容是否屬真實的歷史事跡，我們無從稽考。但千多年的歷史重量和厚度，情感上，相信它會比較有趣。
「基督教成立初期，並沒有任何經文，所有道理都是靠口傳。而當時基督教屬非法組織，大量信徒被羅馬人殺害，因為他們拒絕將禽畜奉獻給羅馬神。及後，依勒內主教認為信徒既為信仰犧牲，他們起碼也應該了解所信的是一些什麼，因此他便著手編著聖經。」
今天冷眼看古代，確然覺得古代人愚不可及，為著一些不清晰的信仰而犧牲生命。基督徒可能會抗議，但請試試把「基督教」這三個字改為「伊斯蘭教」去理解。不要以為現代人一定比古代人聰明，若把一個現代BB放往森林讓泰山撫養，不見得那個BB會文明得那裡去。現代人比古代人優勝的，就是現代人擁有更長的歷史憑據。可惜人類的壽命有限，智慧又不可以先天遺傳，所有知識我們都要重新學習。今天忽視歷史的人，本質和古代人沒兩樣，難怪我們還可以常常看到現代人犯著古代人的愚昧(包括我)。
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3 comments:
The reason I quoted "Islam" is for those christian's understanding.
And the "very often".... I'm not sure how often it is. It seems that it's the western point of view of Jihad. For Muslim, they have a purer, simpler, and more positive definition of Jihad.
I haven't watched Syriana. And i don't doubt that some Muslim leaders, as well as Christian leaders or other religion leaders, will brainwash their zealot followers to achieve their whatever "righteous" purposes. All in all, we are just human and that's what human do.
I got some Muslim friends. Usually they are materially poorer, but they are self-contented with their spiritual fullfillment. And that's the merit.
The term "brainwash" is a bit of overstatement. But anyway yes, it's an interesting subject especially you have some knowledge of hypnotic language. And once you understand it, you can see people practicing it everywhere, in churches, schools, speeches...
Over the years, I have discovered that many things i learnt were false. In the other words, my teachers and parents taught me false information. Not that they purposely did it to wrong me, but that they believed it was the right things to teach. OH MY GOD!
For your friend's case, she seemed to be the polar type, switching from extreme to extreme. Actually she didn't have to give up her faith. She may just need to reconstruct her faith to fit her rational free mind.
And do you feel my articles offensive to Christianity?
I wont really mind if my kid can have the ability to prove me wrong. And I think it's far more important to teach kids to think rationally, and have an open mind so that they can consciously choose their way of life.
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