Since the dawn of recorded humanity , books have always been a common and popular endeavor . Philosophers , novelists , gods and prophets , till our times in the new forms of bloggers , and the short versions of tweeters and face-book users , always a display of ideas , power and will , imagination et all.
Today I'm referring to holy and sacred books , scriptures and the like . The Christian Bibles , the Hebrew Tanakh and Talmud and other old testament books , the Qur'an and many other holy books governing other religions .
If we accept ( and many of us do ) that all holy and sacred books were of historical nature , books that arose out of the life of the then people . Prophets and their books that came naturally from time to time to intervene and reorganize public life , books that involved certain communities and aimed at making a contribution to it's life .
All religion books and scriptures were originally addressed to other people at many different times and places , not relating in any way with us nowadays . The commanding words and verses of authority and will in one century will not always work as originally planned in another
Holy books and scriptures cannot and should not claim to answer and speak for changing circumstances of all succeeding ages , the sacred books of all religions belong forever to the past , a non governing past . Trying to revive this past today belong only to the entertainment world , the movies , to few historians , not to managing actual affairs and world governance.
The human race is naturally always driven to move forward , toward more intelligent times and ways , and not stagnate and stay content with the life of the present , and certainly not be fixed in its past . The past cannot simply be reincarnated and imposed on the present by sheer force .
In a future blog I will address some more specific issues relating to holy and sacred books , as usual my many thanks to you all .
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