stories, parables. you can imagine the people sitting around the fire after the goats are milked, sharing these stories such as jesus weeping for jerusalem. so we have a period of oral history. next, it moves into a period of early written history and scholars posit that there was a proto matthew, a proto luke - early sources in which people, as a group, began to concretize around jesus's teachings and his events. then we begin to feel the need to write these down. and then finally the third stage is the actual writing of the gospels - matthew, mark, luke, and john - each with their own direction, each to a specific audience. mark, obviously, to an apocalyptic community that felt that the world was imminently coming to an end. matthew presents jesus as the greater teacher, the interpreter of the torah. luke to a more gentile audience, and jesus becomes the savior for all peoples and all nations. and finally john, later, much more gnostic, much more holy spirit-oriented, so that the church becomes the ve

, confucius spoke in parables, socrates spoke in parables. i think the only - the truths that we seek to grasp cannot be grasped in such a simple thing as just saying it from me to you. i think what we have to - what they understood is that most people aren't going to understand this unless we bring everyday things, everyday symbols into it, and bring some normalacy to it, so people can understand it, like we talked about in the second class, with bringing life symbols like the fish and crosses and stuff. >> exactly. that's exactly the point we want to look at when we're looking at myth is that's what's going on here. religious experience is extraordinary. we talked about language in here and how difficult it is to express it, and so myth symbols - and we'll go into more formal notes later on symbols - but symbols are elements that you're familiar with but they may point to something totally different - and that's what's going on in the drama. and because myths are so fantastic or extraordinary, they need to be ritually reworked and relived -

maybe as good as that one-- is one of the bold leaders of pulpit freedom sunday, a man with the parables and the pair of balls. pastor jim garlow. pastor jim, thanks so much for coming. (cheers and applause) how many years have been doing this? >> this is the fifth year. >> stephen: so you guys have been basically trying to poke the hornet's nest of the i.r.s. for five years so they'll take you to court over the this unjust law. why haven't they done it yet? >> i assume they think they're going to lose. we had that privilege for 166 years in american history and then it was taken away 58 years ago and our line was simple: no governmental intrusion into the life of the church at all. >> let's talk about what the church has going for them right now. which i really love. you've got this tax-free thing going on. (laughter) can i get in on that? because-- (laughter) i've got a super pac but donations to me are not tax deductions and and other people have to use aftertax money for their political speech. but you guys get to use pre-tax money for political speech. i'd love to have my political

impression to anybody that this is just a glorified casino and that you know you're going to hear your parable so that's why they deliberately choose nice move through his words just basically time the whole thing down now. because. that's. often used to describe city of london or wall street but in a casino people do have a chance at making money but what we're seeing here with these crimes against capitalism and society at large is that people are just beings having their money stolen from them that's they have no chance of making money there's a difference there it would be good if it were and if there was a casino that would least have some ability to make some money but here you have nobody there just stealing money right the problem is the people making money are the insiders. and so when you go in there i used to think that we would have a sign every every gate to the city of london big sign saying casino you know abandon hope all you enter here like they used to have over the time london well he said well insiders ok when david cameron the prime minister talked about the aspiration nat

development experiment, which failed to achieve its goals in the 50s, 60s, and 70s, in many ways was a parable of sources for the grand nation building our country has engaged in over there for the past decades. so i start my book with the story of americans in afghanistan six decades ago, to set the stage for discussion of the troop surge. >> host: welling, the subtitle of your bikes the war within the war in afghanistan. what due you mean. >> guest: there wasn't just the war unfolding on the ground in afghanistan. as our government decided to surge more forces in there, to adopt a new strategy for trying to stabilize the country, i discovered that all of the key origins of our american bureaucracy fought amongst one another. we had wars within the pentagon. you would think if you were sending more troops to afghanistan, those troops would go the places that are most critical. the places the taliban were seeking to take over. the places most at risk to insurgent gains and potentially a takeover of that country. instead, we wound up sending the first wave of new forces to a part of the country

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