The Shack is a Heretical Book!
this post is not a book review. It is a book alert...a book to watch out for. Follow the links to find reviews that measure this book with the Bible. Since writing this post I have read enough excerpts, interviews, and rebutalls to agree with the conclusions of these reviews, and the conclusions of my discerning Christian friends. This book is unbiblical, gives people a false understanding of the Trinity, and is being used as a REPLACEMENT for the Bible in many 'Bible studies' that I know of. Christians are also saying that it has helped them to understand God in a way that the Bible has not. DOES THIS NOT ALARM YOU? Any time a book is used instead of the Bible, it is anti-logos - in the place of the Word (Jesus is the Word). This is no small matter. So whether I have personally read the book or not is of no importance.
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How true. whether you have personally read the book or not is of no importance. You are of no importance. Believing in sky-daddy doesn't make you important. But if it makes you feel as though you are important, well, fair enough.
Wahhh, people aren't thumping their Bibles hard enough. Also, the term "heretic" applied to those who rejected the authority of the Catholic church, which means that you too are one.
So whether I have personally read the book or not is of no importance.
Um, it kind of does if you want people to get the impression that you know what you're talking about. But then again, so many fundies think they don't have to bother knowing their subject in order to expound on it.
You haven't read it? Then you're no different from the fundy fucktards who cried and bitched about 'The Book of Daniel' and got it cancelled before the first six episodes were finished airing, all without ever having even seen the show at all.
Haven't been exposed? You don't have an opinion. Step aside and let the people who actually know what the fuck they're talking about have access to the podium.
So whether I have personally read the book or not is of no importance.
So you’ve read excerpts, interviews and rebuttals but not the book?
Yes that matters you idiot, it matters very much.
"Last week I made a post on a book called The Shack that everyone is talking about. I have not read it, don't plan to, and don't know much about it. I simply don't have the time."
So instead, I'm going to denounce the possibly-skewed summary that other people have given me. Because obviously writing an uninformed tirade on the Internet--indeed, writing several lengthy blog posts on the subject--wastes less time than actually reading the book for myself, right?
Carla, by admitting that you haven't even read the book, you insulted yourself. We didn't even have to do it for you.
Illuminatalie: I would hope that the point of the holiness would be to preserve oneself from whatever pain they could in this portion of existence, like an ill person would undertake a regimen. Why subject yourself to ruin if you don't have to? Unfortunately, their idea of God and Jesus seems to be heavy on the "ruler" and very light on the "physician" and "mentor".
Well yeah, it's technically a heresy, but it was so fucking boring and pointless that I didn't even bother reading it. Personally, I don't see the attraction.
I read it because someone picked it in our book club. She attends church but not overly religious or fundie. I think she picked it because it was on the bestseller list and it was short (thank goodness!!)
It was hard for me to get through, but not for the same reasons as our friend Carla has stated.
Since writing this post I have read enough excerpts, interviews, and rebutalls
But you haven't actually read the book, have you? That kind of makes me doubt that you know what you're talking about.
"Any time a book is used instead of the Bible, it is anti-logos - in the place of the Word (Jesus is the Word)." Would that be the King James Authorized edition of the Bible, or the New International Version of the Bible, or the Masoretic Hebrew Bible, or the Septuagint Bible, or the Gnostic Bible, or the Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, or ...
then don't read it, shit head
although then again, by all means continue attacking your fellow christians, that's always fun to watch
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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