The Ear Of God?

Presumably God does:

Or not:


I don't know how people are supposed to distinguish between true prophets and false ones. Might be best to just ignore them all.

That would suggest the Christian bible is contradictory on organized religion, wouldn't it?

As the wise man said, "Those who know, don't say, and those who say, don't know."

Even those who have a mind-shattering spiritual experience tend to interpret it within the context of their personal religion, and their personal religion consists of the dogmas, symbols, and myths they were inculcated with as children. That is not to discount spiritual experience; it simply means that the relating of spiritual experience can only be done through metaphors, or poetry and music. It's as big a mistake to assume that myths can only be taken literally as it is poetry.

As small children we are constantly in of what we might call a hypnotic state of mind and are open to messages being implanted by inculcating or through repitition. The problem is that when we grow up we think that we can only take these myths literally rather than metaphorically. There are two ways of taking any religious symbol or myth: Mosaically, that is literally; and Hermetically, that is metaphorically.

Greatest quote ever!

Quoth one of the faithful in the Life of Brian: "I say he is the Messiah, and I should know: I've followed a few!"

He's not the Messiah. He's a very naughty boy.

(patiodog, don't get me started again. We've already confused a whole bunch of folks on that other thread. )