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This-essay is a9907151.htm which is available at the web-site www.essayz.com. See more notes at the bottom. Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay By-Months By-Years By-Words Webs of Like-&-Un-Like ESSAYS <==> Like-&-UN-Like This-One ========================================================== %ABSENT MISSING LOGIC PROHIBITIONS PRESCRIPTIONS+990715 %COMMANDMENT SCRIPTURE TEXT INTERPRETATION LAWS 990715 It may be helpful to consider the possible reasons for some religious leaders failures to articulate the logic or reasons for many of the prohibitions, prescriptions and commandments which they take so seriously. For many religious leaders it seem enough that a text containing a commandment can be found in the collected books of an ancient religious library which was collected over a period of many centuries. A few questions would seem in order. 1. In practice no one take all injunctions found in that collected library are taken equally seriously. What criteria is the basis for judging some injunctions to be more important than others --- as indicated by actual practice and admonitions? Some injunctions are almost totally ignored. Other injunctions are the focus of much disputation. Why? 2. Some of the injunctions which are found in the collected library could be shown to make good common sense, but rarely do religious leaders articulate the reasons that they make good sense. Why not do so? Is it because others of the injunctions found in the texts do not make sense in new contexts, and it is inconvenient to deal with disparities between ancient contexts and modern contexts? 3. Some injunctions empower religious leaders who support the injunctions. In what way can such injunctions be defended without bias? By whom? 4. Rarely are human experiences pointed to as having any relevance to showing that religious injunctions make sense. Why are there so few references to human experiences which could well be used to show that certain of the injunctions make a lot of sense? Is it because there are some highly favored injunctions which cannot be shown to make sense in terms of common human experiences; and so they must be accepted "on authority" which is not related to common human experiences? To defend some injunctions in terms of human experiences would undermine the reputations of favored injunctions which can only be accepted "on authority". On whose authority? To whose advantage? At whose disadvantage? (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in www.essayz.com Search for Integrity and Honesty (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================
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