I attended a wedding recently. It was a religious ceremony at the church I attended as a child (I'm not longer religious). All I could think about during scripture readings and interpretations was possible responses that Dr. Francesca could have to completely falsify and question said text. (Dr. Francesca along with Dawkins, Krauss and the late Hitchens). I looked upon other attenders faces blindly and blissfully resonating with the readings and all I could do was think critically (to the best of my ability).
The book of Job and a lot of surviving religions are based on the idea of supernatural wisdom in auto-dissonant texts (with vagueness, partial internally contradiction, and/or cliff-hangers).
So I far I like what she presents. From what I've gathered and been taught religion and the concept of God started as way to deal with the stress of nature then it became a way to deal with social pressures and oppression of people and so this perpetual cycle of trying to create gods or religions to oppress the oppressor. I really enjoy the historical aspects of of it all.
Amazing clarity.... Thanks Francesca.... No wonder die hard "god concept" fans feel threatened..... I prefer Knowledge and Reality, wherever it leads me, instead of imaginary, capricious, judgmental beings designed by bronze-age individuals.....
childish? i don't think so, what do you say about Christ giving Christians 'the Our Father' prayer and when he was dying on the Cross before he took his last breath he said "Father into your hands I commit my spirit." You need to acknowledge HIS statements plus God incarnating as a Man (Jesus) . Then you will realize she has a point! please watch her Doco 'the bibles buried secrets: did God have a wife?' and you will realize how Monotheism was invented out of fear after the sacking of the temple of Jerusalem and how the Canaanite slaves who were not yet Israelite's' were led out of Egypt by Moses under the guidance of the Pagan Male God El who became the God we know today as Yahweh! And how the Goddess became erased out of Israelite religion. Please do your research before criticizing a superb, progressive scholar like Prof Stavrakopoulou who liberated me from Christianity.
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My Professor and teacher for one of my modules. Love Exeter and its theology team. Best theology faculty in the world!
I attended a wedding recently. It was a religious ceremony at the church I attended as a child (I'm not longer religious). All I could think about during scripture readings and interpretations was possible responses that Dr. Francesca could have to completely falsify and question said text. (Dr. Francesca along with Dawkins, Krauss and the late Hitchens). I looked upon other attenders faces blindly and blissfully resonating with the readings and all I could do was think critically (to the best of my ability).
Totally worth the watch.
The book of Job and a lot of surviving religions are based on the idea of supernatural wisdom in auto-dissonant texts (with vagueness, partial internally contradiction, and/or cliff-hangers).
So I far I like what she presents. From what I've gathered and been taught religion and the concept of God started as way to deal with the stress of nature then it became a way to deal with social pressures and oppression of people and so this perpetual cycle of trying to create gods or religions to oppress the oppressor. I really enjoy the historical aspects of of it all.
This woman is brilliant.
To bad the microphone was placed 6 feet away from their voices...poor audio...
Amazing clarity.... Thanks Francesca.... No wonder die hard "god concept" fans feel threatened..... I prefer Knowledge and Reality, wherever it leads me, instead of imaginary, capricious, judgmental beings designed by bronze-age individuals.....
these insights are fascinating,since studying scolarship the bible opens up and def moves one away from fundamentalism
Francesca Stavrakopoulou: very interesting vieuws on religion etc. Excellent in debates. Great mind.
Also: a greek goddess... :-) : Aphrodite :-)
Fascinating
childish? i don't think so, what do you say about Christ giving Christians 'the Our Father' prayer and when he was dying on the Cross before he took his last breath he said "Father into your hands I commit my spirit." You need to acknowledge HIS statements plus God incarnating as a Man (Jesus) . Then you will realize she has a point! please watch her Doco 'the bibles buried secrets: did God have a wife?' and you will realize how Monotheism was invented out of fear after the sacking of the temple of Jerusalem and how the Canaanite slaves who were not yet Israelite's' were led out of Egypt by Moses under the guidance of the Pagan Male God El who became the God we know today as Yahweh! And how the Goddess became erased out of Israelite religion. Please do your research before criticizing a superb, progressive scholar like Prof Stavrakopoulou who liberated me from Christianity.
I thought the Hebrew bible was written during the exile in Babylon, so just before the Persian liberation.