{"id":2785,"date":"2024-01-16T01:46:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T01:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2024-01-16T01:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T01:46:14","slug":"evensong-97","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/?p=2785","title":{"rendered":"EVENSONG 97"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Once again, this psalm admits that other cultures with other gods exist, noting \u201cthe multitude of isles\u201d in this Old Hebrew psalmist\u2019s world. Would that be the Greek isles? Islands near Turkey?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, this guy\u2019s main point is to say how great YHWH is, and he declares, \u201cLet all be put to shame who serve carved [or graven] images, \/ Who boast of idols.\u201d Like a star or cross, maybe?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That makes me wonder what the psalmist would say about other man-made objects we worship today \u2014 our iphones, our cars, our homes? And what about guns, red caps and all those flags?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then there are logos \u2014 not words, but symbols. They say who we are and what we value. I collect \u2014 but certainly do not worship \u2014 the Aum, which reminds me of the iSoul, of Everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So graven images can be bad or good, depending on one\u2019s mood. To the Amish and indigenous peoples, photography is the devil\u2019s work. To us, a good pic is the icing on our social media cake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Once again, this psalm admits that other cultures with other gods exist, noting \u201cthe multitude of isles\u201d in this Old Hebrew psalmist\u2019s world. Would that be the Greek isles? Islands near Turkey? Of course, this guy\u2019s main point is to say how great YHWH is, and he declares, \u201cLet all be put to shame who … Continue reading EVENSONG 97<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2786,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaillardiapress.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}