Tag: Social Justice

• The Gospels (5) ‘Sermon on the Mount – Beatitudes’

  In this series, I’m looking at the Gospels as literature, as religious tracts, with contents selected and shaped accordingly. Even if your ‘religion’ is liberal, radical or non-existent, these fascinating and thought-provoking pieces of literature have much to offer, if read for what they are, rather than for what, in my view, they are not.…

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  28th Sep 2021

  Jesus of Nazareth, Literature, Mythology, New Testament, Religion

  Apocalytic, Beatitudes, Gospels, Humanitarian, Jesus, Literature, Moses, Social Justice

• Sin, Sodom and Gomorrah

  In Genesis 18, Yahweh tells Abraham that the noise of an “outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah” has been so loud, it’s reached him up in his abode above the skies. He says, “I must go down and see if they are as wicked as the outcry suggests”, which implies that he’s not as “all-knowing” as…

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  30th May 2021

  Hebrew Bible, Literature, Old Testament, Poetry, Religion

  Abraham, Genesis, Hospitality, Lot, Social Justice, Sodom