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I've always been casually interested in Lutheran mystics and Bohme is the leader if the pack, but I can't find any source that offers a clear explanation of his views. I'm just looking for an overview. Even the Wikipedia entry on him confuses me.

I'm not so sure complete allegorical reading is the answer.I know I could never get my head around Jihad until I read the Bhagavad Gita... which is ironic. All great religious scripture involves war for some reason. From the Divine Homer to the Mahabharata.

When I hear 'gnostic' I think of gnostic Christian duality borne of the dissonance between Jewish religion and the spiritual mystery of the gnostics. I definitely don't think Jesus ascribed to that. Did Jesus taken an internalized approach to scripture? I see no reason to doubt it.

That's a generalization. That's like saying Christians love everybody. Hinduism in a lot of ways is like Judaism with an ethnocentric theology and caste system. I can't conceive of an orthodox Hindu believing that a non-Hindu has any role to play on earth other than being an extra, or that...

I'm reminded (and I forget the small details) of the Canadian mother of a terrorist who laughed at the idea that she should feel pity for Canadians who are killed by terrorism. But when her son was captured by Americans, her lawyer appealed to 'western principles' for his fair treatment. As a...

If God doesn't kill the President does that mean that Jesus disapproved of the prayer? Will Pastor Steven Anderson apologize to God for misapprehending His will?

Also, the legends and sayings that are shared between the Quran and Mishnah. Queen of Sheba and the glass floor, Honi sleeping for a number of years, etc. The 'Muhammed is the true Messiah' argument has never set right with me. Maybe I'm just phobic of Ahmadiyyas.

I've never understood the argument that suffering is a strike against the possible existence of deity. A human may yield against suffering just as an insentient rock might yield against being broken in two, but this is a fundamental element of reality. The idea that deity, or some other...

I was thinking lately of the share holidays between various groups. Christian took Christmas and made it a celebration of Jesus. Easter and Pesach intersect. Yom Kippur and Ashura are likewise similar, but at odds. Are there any other significant holy days that have shared backgrounds?

It's just a joke. Couldn't think of anything else to put in that particular box. I've been reading a forum on Islam and was looking for a more diverse range of views. But there are a lot of Sephardic influences. Moses De Leon (regardless of how you view his relationship to the Zohar) was...

I started the first one, but couldn't get interested. It was a neat concept though.

I like his stuff a lot, but he would be nobody if there wasn't the Hasid schtick. That doesn't mean much, though. Most of the artists and bands I like ARE nobodies. Thank God for the internet. Pop music stinks.

I wonder how much influence Sufi panentheism had on early Hassidim.

The problem is that the weight of 'ahmadu' is in its apparent similarity to 'Muhammed'. Nothing Jesus could've said would amount to that. Even if he had said 'chammadot' (the nearest Hebrew/Aramaic word) it wouldn't come out to 'ahmadu'. I think Muslim apologists made a mistake trying to equate...