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Thank you.
I can't tell you how amazed I am at my hubby. He could be freaking out at this point but he simply accepts that I am looking into a religion that is different then his. A lot of people wouldn't be as open. He is making me very happy now.
This is something that the book that I referenced mentioned but I agree with. I am going to express this badly though. Different religions and faith, to me, focus on different portions of the same Deity. Its like walking into a remodeled, older home. Certain rooms might have been purposely decorated to honor the time period when the house was originally built. Someone examining the 18th century mantel might be amazed at the attention to an earlier time period that the decorators showed, while a person who examined the modern kitchen might notice how up to date all the appliances were. Both people would have different views of the house and its owners but if neither one had seen the entire house, their views wouldn't be right or wrong, just incomplete.
Maybe it isn't the best analogy. LOL
Forgive me for adding to a thread that I have not completely read. Your analogy sent me searching for another analogy I saw. It as a poem based on a much older Indian story.
John Godfrey Saxe
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind
The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!"
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, "Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me 'tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!"
The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a snake!"
The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
"What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain," quoth he;
" 'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!"
The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!"
The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a rope!"
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
Moral:
So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!
Thank you.
I can't tell you how amazed I am at my hubby. He could be freaking out at this point but he simply accepts that I am looking into a religion that is different then his. A lot of people wouldn't be as open. He is making me very happy now.
This is something that the book that I referenced mentioned but I agree with. I am going to express this badly though. Different religions and faith, to me, focus on different portions of the same Deity. Its like walking into a remodeled, older home. Certain rooms might have been purposely decorated to honor the time period when the house was originally built. Someone examining the 18th century mantel might be amazed at the attention to an earlier time period that the decorators showed, while a person who examined the modern kitchen might notice how up to date all the appliances were. Both people would have different views of the house and its owners but if neither one had seen the entire house, their views wouldn't be right or wrong, just incomplete.
Maybe it isn't the best analogy. LOL
Forgive me for adding to a thread that I have not completely read. Your analogy sent me searching for another analogy I saw. It as a poem based on a much older Indian story.
John Godfrey Saxe
It was six men of Indostan
To learning much inclined,
Who went to see the Elephant
(Though all of them were blind),
That each by observation
Might satisfy his mind
The First approached the Elephant,
And happening to fall
Against his broad and sturdy side,
At once began to bawl:
"God bless me! but the Elephant
Is very like a wall!"
The Second, feeling of the tusk,
Cried, "Ho! what have we here
So very round and smooth and sharp?
To me 'tis mighty clear
This wonder of an Elephant
Is very like a spear!"
The Third approached the animal,
And happening to take
The squirming trunk within his hands,
Thus boldly up and spake:
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a snake!"
The Fourth reached out an eager hand,
And felt about the knee.
"What most this wondrous beast is like
Is mighty plain," quoth he;
" 'Tis clear enough the Elephant
Is very like a tree!"
The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear,
Said: "E'en the blindest man
Can tell what this resembles most;
Deny the fact who can
This marvel of an Elephant
Is very like a fan!"
The Sixth no sooner had begun
About the beast to grope,
Than, seizing on the swinging tail
That fell within his scope,
"I see," quoth he, "the Elephant
Is very like a rope!"
And so these men of Indostan
Disputed loud and long,
Each in his own opinion
Exceeding stiff and strong,
Though each was partly in the right,
And all were in the wrong!
Moral:
So oft in theologic wars,
The disputants, I ween,
Rail on in utter ignorance
Of what each other mean,
And prate about an Elephant
Not one of them has seen!
