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Aversion to long hair as socially acceptable on males a ploy by christian fundamental
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| w_ashley |
... fundamentalists to reserve the image of Jesus as "special and unique"
http://www.google.ca/images?hl=en&q...=og&sa=N&tab=wi
Here it is... if Jesus is so sacred, and people are generally selfish satanists to other people "who are just some other person" able to be used and deprived of equal earthly rights --- then we must attack those who look like Jesus so that they don't defile our icon.
I do not support these beleifs, but thought I would see if anyone cares to have a discussion on this.
for example:
http://www.google.ca/images?um=1&hl...l=&oq=&gs_rfai=
compare
Yet in Corinthians - it says long hair is shameful - yet the popular image of Jesus is with long hair?
Yet Nazarite's arn't able to shave their heads as part of their vows...
Hmmm was Jesus unholy and unable to pray without dishonor to his father? Or is there an exclusion for Jesus, or is paul maybe not telling the full truth? As he wrote Corinthians aparently 40+ years two generations after Jesus was crucified. Odd that whence paul wrote from greece to ancient greeks it symbol of prestige while to be shaven was for slaves. Stylistically the Romans who had conquered Pauls Greece wore short hair... this seems to counter the image of Jesus and presents paul as a liar promoting Roman customs within the practices of the followers of Jesus that would counter the nazarite act of devotion to christ and the greek custom of greatness in long hair.
Odd, no? |
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| EricB. |
| quote: | Originally posted by ********
, but thought I would see if anyone cares to have a discussion on this.
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nope but we are interested in where youre crazy ass has been for the last few months |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
Well, fundies (if you are talking about literalist Protestants) generally place little stock in religious imagery anyway. Some of them even ban pictures from their churches, as a physical distraction from the spiritual realities of God and Jesus.
If I recall, their prohibition on long hair for men comes out of something Paul wrote. |
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| EddieZilker |
| I think any aversion to long hair has more to do with conventional notions of masculinity than unflattering comparisons to Jesus. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by idoru
Goddamnit. |
:stongue: :stongue: |
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| quote: | Originally posted by MrJiveBoJingles
Well, fundies (if you are talking about literalist Protestants) generally place little stock in religious imagery anyway. Some of them even ban pictures from their churches, as a physical distraction from the spiritual realities of God and Jesus.
If I recall, their prohibition on long hair for men comes out of something Paul wrote. |
Here are the verses, from 1 Corinthians 11:
| quote: | | 12 For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God. 13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. 16 If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice -- nor do the churches of God. |
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| Meat187 |
| Hey ********, did you go to Ukraine now or not? |
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| w_ashley |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
Hey ********, did you go to Ukraine now or not? |
Eh, no. I will potentially be visiting in September - but this is all geusswork. I am skeptical on it. I won't go into details until after due to my impression that anything I write will be used and potentially misinterpreted because people are morons. |
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| w_ashley |
| quote: | Originally posted by EddieZilker
I think any aversion to long hair has more to do with conventional notions of masculinity than unflattering comparisons to Jesus. |
Zeus, Achilles, Hector, and Poseidon
arn't masculine?
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| MrJiveBoJingles |
| You're talking about different cultures. Classical Greece and Rome versus the modern Christian era. |
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