You, too, could own your own Faith Explosion brooch. Wouldn't that be fantastic? You should definitely buy one for everyone that you dislike, just to watch the remnants of their exploded faith wing through the cheery sky like shot skeet.
Or you could use this handy honeycomb Meta-Faith Explosion chart to remember some major religious symbols, none of which are likely made happy by being smashed onto the same chart. It's like the family reunion from hell, except that no party is allowed to leave their leg-scrunching Miatas while arguing over the existence of said hell. So it's even worse, since I'm pretty sure that hell is a long, awkward theological argument conducted inside a Miata.
I don't even know what a lot of these symbols refer to, but I'm really intrigued by the three parallel lines with the space in the middle. It looks like someone sat down with a ruler and made a rough draft of an interstate, and then it accidentally morphed into a major religious symbol of some sort.
Anyway, what are you waiting for?
3 comments:
The "faith explosion" was worse than I feared.
Your definition of hell, however, makes me wonder if I'm already there.
That particular trigram represents fire. The I Ching was written by a student of Taoism, but it's used throughout Eastern philosophy. The trigrams also appear on the Korean flag and have significance in the Korean martial art of Tae Kwon Do.
Mac, have you ever heard of Creflo A. Dollar? He's a tv preacher with a lot of influence in my home church who teaches that Total Life Prosperity is the right of the Christian believer. Dollar is one of the folks that I think of when scholars around these parts characterize conservative Christians as having a 'future eschatology.' He definitely has a least an inagurated eschatology, since he thinks that all the wealth of the Kingdom was won for believers in the cross and resurrection of Christ.
This belief shows up in lots of places, variously called the health and wealth gospel, the Word-Faith movement, 'name it and claim it' prayer, and so forth.
I can put more work into an explaination, if you want. But the short version is this comic.
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