Independent Blog:
So
I found it interesting, in The
Idea of the Holy (pg.
5) to read about just that, the idea of the holy. Here's an excerpt:
“It
is true that all this moral significance is contained in the word
'holy.', but it includes in addition – as even we cannot but feel –
a clear overplus of meaning, and this it is now our task to isolate.
Nor is this merely a later or acquired meaning; rather, 'holy', or at
least the equivalent words in Latin and Greek, in Semitic and other
ancient languages, denoted first and foremost only
this overplus: if ther ethical element was present at all, at any
rate it was not original and never constituted the whole meaning of
ther word.”
To
me, this reminds me of all the other times our mundane existence
(condition almost) gets in the way of us understanding and
communicating objective truth. For instance, I think denominations of
christianity is a good example. There is a true reality of
Christianity, the way its intended originally to be understood, but
we end up all having our own way of understanding it, and these ways
contradict each other (many times). In 1 Corinthians, Paul explains
the importance of being of one mind, one purpose, and having no
devisions among us, but this isn't the case anymore because we can't
seem to separate our own thoughts from that of Gods; they always get
mixed up together.
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