"If attained, enlightenment brings about the same kind of obedience to the moral code (dharma) that "salvation" does in the West, but without the legalism that Christianity is regarded as having abolished in theory."
This makes me think how we as an American community have made it impossibly "legally" to achieve enlightenment. If you were to achieve enlightenment people would question if it was even possible to reach such a thing. Just as we question if a person is able to connect with the dead. Is it the fact we fear the thought we are actually able to get in-touch with something in a different world or is it it true it is not possible to reach enlightenment (the third quote goes into this a bit more)? It is almost embarrassing to people to admit to their friends if they religious and it is the cool thing to be anti-religious. We as teachers in a public school can not even admit to believe in God without being punished.
As you hear kids driving around yelling out windows "faaaaag" or "Hail Satan!"things you would never hear in Palestine or current day Israel (The Holy Land as it is referred to in The Slave). A place where a person takes pride in their heritage and what their religion means to them while we (Americans) have made Sundays more religious for football than church in recent years. It makes our whole prior life questionable. Our ancestors for the most part have all lived their life by the Bible even if they lived by it for moral reasoning instead of having a true faith in God. People have questioned Gods existence for a while but now since we have scientific evidence it is highly unlikely their is someone above or so this is what we are constantly told in todays world.
p.110
"The world God made was so "good" that he spent his seventh day contemplating it--which means that his Creation including man, was already objective to God,"
Frye actually makes a joke? Nope, he turns it into a compelling argument. Although I do enjoy the thought of seeing God sitting back in his lazy boy with a cold as the Rockies Coors Light watching the Patriots in London this past Sunday. But I find it highly unlikely he was able to stay awake during the game because who wouldn't pass out after six days of creating the entire universe? I mean come on most Dungeons and Dragons players would be pooped after a day of JUST creating animals which walk on the land and swim in the sea. Frye continues on to say God created the rotation of sun/moon so he was able to "impose light and order on a chaotic darkness." It is then through the rotation of night and day we are able to see both sides of God's creations. Since God created all which evil and virtuous so we are ensured we remember both sides of God. That he can instill pain just as quickly as Jesus healed the blind.
p.116
"The explanation is generally that it was only an angel of God that was seen. The miraculously burning bush, as a visible object, is there only to catch Moses' attention: it is what is said from within it that is important."
Are we not always told how important it is to look into someone's soul to see how good of a person they are? We can not judge a book by its cover? Well, the same goes for Moses' he must look into the burning bush which he saw at Mount Horeb. I mean, maybe the burning bush is meant to represent God burning up with anger because of how self-conscious Moses is and how annoyed he is with all of Moses dumb questions; this all because God remains remarkably calm. Well, I guess they aren't dumb questions because God does seems to answer them with respectable answers.
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