Re: OT: WAY OT: Re: OT: Re: What? the clean-shaven outnumber the bearded?

>>Ditto here, though I do know some who say one
> > shouldn't use commends with
> > _God_.
>
>I assume you meant commands.  In that case I can't see
Yes. My typo.

>any reason why i shouldn't use imparative forms in
>talking to God.  People in the Bible did it all the
<snip>

>religions believe their adherants should address their
>gods, but in the Jewish and Christian traditions
>imeratives are more than acceptable, they would seem
>to be laudable.
First and foremost, I will never tell anyone how he/she should worship,
address, dentify or otherwise connect, communicate or acknowledge etc.
his/her gods, deities, archetypes, etc.

Within the Pagan community, commands are used about as often as any other
form, especially when invoking and/or evoking. I, personally, even feel free
to rant at my gods. But I do know Christians within the USA who publicly
admonish others for using commands with YHWH/God. How do they explain the
commands in the New and Old Testaments? They regard those persons as being
purer spiritually and living in purer times/societies than we do today, and
therefore more entitled  (yes, I know, it's not logical, and falls under an
"appeal to antiquity" in debate, but it's not an idea unique to
Christianity). I've never experienced Buddhists commanding the Buddha or the
Bodhisattvas, but then my studies there tend more to be in Theravada and
Zen, and the primes and assumptions and foci are different.

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