Taboo God

Taboo God
G G o o d d T T a a b b o o o o : : W W e e d d o o n n ’ ’ t t t t a a l l k k a a b b o o u u t t r r e e l l i i g g i i o o n n
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You might have heard this viewpoint in various forms: “We don’t talk about religion.” “Religion is culturally determined.” “My life is just fine as it is.” “Faith is a personal matter.” (You are intruding by talking about it.)
Of course, faith in God is a personal matter! Each person has their own relationship with God and relationships are personal. However, what is often meant is that the topic of a relationship with God is private and should not be discussed in public. This is not true. Today many people are more comfortable discussing their sex life than talking about God. This is an unfortunate social development and makes it very difficult to explore matters of God and eternal consequences in an open, constructive way. Where can you go for answers then? If your friends are no help, where can you turn for reliable information? (We would be happy to answer your questions.)
The lack of interest in God is based on the belief that meaning and purpose can be found in life apart from God. This is easier to believe than Atheism and includes both those who don’t know whether God exists and those who don’t care. The person hopes that a personal God does not exist, and is not motivated to investigate. The question of God is not interesting or relevant.
But does that make sense? If there is a personal God, who created the world, who is eternal and all powerful, how could this not be relevant to your life? If this God is all knowing, is aware of you, and has a purpose for your life, then that is extremely relevant.
Can we know God? Well, that depends. Mainly it depends on our motives. In one sense there is evidence about God all around us. The prophet Habakkuk wrote that, “His splendor covers the heavens and the earth is full of His praise.” See Hab. 3:3 , Psalm 8 ) But we can be very creative in inventing alternate theories, when motivated. As the apostle Paul writes in 57 A.D.: “For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish heart was darkened.” ( Romans 1:20-21 )
This avoidance is not new, 1000 years earlier King David wrote:
The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.”
They are corrupt, they have committed abominable deeds;
There is no one who does good.
The Lord has looked down from heaven upon the sons of men
To see if there are any who understand,
Who seek after God.
They have all turned aside, together they have become corrupt;
There is no one who does good, not even one. ( Psalm 14:1-3 )
Whether the fool said so out loud, or just in his heart, he lived as though there were no God. Notice the connection between the atheistic worldview and the motivation, or perhaps the ability, to do good. Notice that this worldview is strengthened by the crowd mentality. They have “all” turned “together”. When you are with others in a smelly gym you don’t notice your own smell. “Corrupt” can mean dishonest, perverted, or putrid. Notice how the Lord God is described as looking, actively interested! He is looking for “any” who do two things: understand, and seek after God. Could that describe you?
Maybe you have become convinced that it is not possible to know anything about God. Perhaps your personal cost of learning about God may be high. It will affect your family, your friends, your job. Better to live in ignorance you think. Yet the Bible says you are “without excuse”. Don’t hide behind the excuse, “How could I know which religion is true?” It is possible to investigate and compare truth claims by various religions. You owe it to yourself to know the truth!
Have you ever heard “That’s only true for you”? The thinking goes like this… Since each of us came from different backgrounds with various experiences we each view reality from …
Wow, that is a big oversimplification! I suppose you could also say that all people are basically the same. If by this you mean they are born, die, and breath, …

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Catherine Beyer is a practicing Wiccan who has taught religion in at Lakeland College in Wisconsin as well as humanities and Western culture at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay.

Beyer, Catherine. "What Are Taboos in Religious Practices?" Learn Religions, Sep. 10, 2021, learnreligions.com/taboos-in-religious-context-95750.
Beyer, Catherine. (2021, September 10). What Are Taboos in Religious Practices? Retrieved from https://www.learnreligions.com/taboos-in-religious-context-95750
Beyer, Catherine. "What Are Taboos in Religious Practices?" Learn Religions. https://www.learnreligions.com/taboos-in-religious-context-95750 (accessed October 16, 2022).

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A taboo is something a culture considers forbidden. Every culture has them, and they certainly do not need to be religious.

Some taboos are so offensive that they are also illegal. For example, in America (and many other places) pedophilia is so taboo that the act is illegal, and even thinking about sexually desiring children is deeply offensive. Speaking about such thoughts is taboo in most social circles.

Other taboos are more benign. For example, many Americans consider talking about religion and politics among casual acquaintances to be a social taboo. In previous decades, publicly acknowledging someone as a homosexual was also taboo, even if everyone already knew it.

Religions have their own set of taboos. Offending the gods or God is the most obvious, but there are also a variety of taboos that impact daily activities.

Some religions (as well as cultures in general) consider various sexual practices taboo. Homosexuality, incest, and bestiality are inherently taboo for those following the Christian Bible . Among Catholics , sex of any kind is taboo for clergy - priests, nuns, and monks — but not for general believers. In Biblical times, Jewish high priests were not allowed to marry certain types of women.

Jews and Muslims consider certain foods such as pork and shellfish to be unclean. Thus, the eating of them is spiritually polluting and taboo. These rules and others define what Jewish kosher and Islamic halal eating is.

Hindus have taboos against eating beef because it is a sacred animal. To eat it is to profane it. Hindus of higher castes also face increasingly limited types of clean food. Those of high caste are considered more spiritually refined and closer to escape from the cycle of reincarnation. As such, it is easier for them to become spiritually polluted.

In these examples, different groups have a common taboo (not to eat certain foods), but the reasons are quite different.

Certain religions consider it taboos to associate with certain other groups of people. Hindus traditionally don't associate with or even acknowledge the caste known as the untouchables. Again, it becomes spiritually polluting.

While the birth of a child is an important and celebrated event in most cultures, the act itself is sometimes seen as highly spiritually polluting, as is menstruation. Menstruating women might be sequestered in another bedroom or even in another building and might be barred from religious ritual. A purification ritual might be required afterward to remove all traces of pollution formally.

Medieval Christians often performed a ritual called churching in which a woman who has recently given birth is blessed and welcomed back into the church after her confinement. The church today describes it entirely as a blessing, but many see purification elements to it, particularly as it was sometimes practiced in the Middle Ages. In addition, it draws from Torah passages that explicitly do call for purification of new mothers after a period of uncleanliness.

Most often, people attempt to avoid breaking their culture's taboos because of the stigma involved in challenging social or religious expectations. However, some people deliberately break taboos. The breaking of taboos is a defining element of Left-Hand Path spirituality. The term originated in Tantric practices in Asia, but various Western groups, including Satanists, have embraced it.

For western members of the Left-Hand Path , breaking taboos is liberating and reinforces one's individuality rather than being confined by social conformity. This is generally not so much about seeking taboos to break (although some do) but in being comfortable breaking taboos as desired.

In Tantra, Left-Hand Path practices are embraced because they are seen as a quicker way to spiritual goals. These include sexual rituals, use of intoxicants, and animal sacrifice. But they are also considered more spiritually dangerous and more easily exploitable.

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Finally I came to see this Gothic gem from the BBC and I am not disappointed - quite the contrary is the case. In 'Taboo' the set up of the world and the creation of a very dark and at the same time tender atmosphere as well as the nicely arranged spectrum of taboo-motifs (like sexual transgression, the grotesque and strange, overwhelming violence etc.) kept me from being bothered by the fact that I didn't feel one jot more sympathy for its main character than for its antagonists. James K. Delaney is an intriguing mysterious character attracting us in a depraved way. But he is also an individual of extreme moral reprehensibility we eventually cannot go along with. The series makes very good use of Gothic- and Dark Romanticism writers' style to build up the gloomy atmosphere of a depressed 1814 England still anguished by the loss of the great colony. It is no coincidence when Delaney claims at some point in the series:"The ravens told me". We find lots of Poe here either in theme or characters. Madness wanders through the world of 'Taboo' and at least at the dip of the hem this madness is always caused by the East India Company, the Crown or Delaney. Curiously all the characters except Delaney himself are appearing so vulnerably and fragile that their indulgence (to be helpless and lost in this made up society) arises a counter-part to the unforgiveness of the room they live in. 'Taboo' also declares the downfall of the classic adventure genre. There is no space for nostalgic explorers or discoverers in the plot lines, Delaney is a broken man as he returns from Africa, even if he is not willing to admit this. It's rather a farewell to the exotic, the story takes place after the alleged adventure and mainly stays at the well-known. Interestingly the series manages it to combine some accounts on slavery shifting the story to an international level (not many historic series/ movies do this, they mostly remain in the domestic frame). Further the actors do a very nice job. Particularly Tom Hardy, Jonathan Price and the reoccurring Mark Gatiss play exceptionally good. However I have to say that there was no huge character development, which I wished to see. The characters are not uni-dimensional, but they do not alter in their facets. The series tries to offset this flaw with new secrets and confessions in every episode pretending these to be a change, whilst it is actually only about the introduction of new information. A very common writing technique, I think. Overall I can highly recommend 'Taboo', especially for fans of Gothic, Grotesque and the 19th century England.
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