In message <h1goog+c8os_at_eGroups.com> "simon_hibbs2" writes:
>
>> I am assuming you don't live in the United States, Mr. Lord. This
>> is fairly standard dogma among loads of current Protestant sects
>> (admittedly conservative and right-wing for the most part). ...
>
>Suffice to say that it's useful to take germs of an idea from the real
>world and exaggerate them out of context in interestingly fruitcakey
>direction has it's mileage. Julian's right though, best to steer clear
>of parallels that are too direct as they're bound to miss the point,
>as I did.
The difficulty is exaggerating the fruitcakey nonsense of some existing
Christian sects.
I'd tend to go looking in medieval and earlier christian ideas for
bizare ideas. e.g. the homuncular theory of reproduction which
said that the sperm contined a fully formed miniature human which
grew inside the womb until it was ready to be born. In Glorantha
that could be mythically true for a particular sect.
--
Donald Oddy
http://www.grove.demon.co.uk/