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Me Tarzan. You Religious Subtext

because my brain does not stop for football, here i am, asking a question that NO DOUBT may go relatively unanswered. sometimes i wonder about the earth dwellers but still, here i am; still, here we are. i'll make it brief: Dear Religion: Is every word of your various texts, full of and/or subject to subtext or is a word simply a word with nothing or no real meaning behind it? As a Theist - more so, as a Theist Poet - sometimes i think about concepts and thought processes; words behind words. And let's face it, a sermon would not be a sermon if one didn't read and extrapolate a deep [inspired?] meaning from the text. But sometimes, is a word not.... i don't know... JUST a word. A footnote for historical reference rather than spiritual? Here's one: Isaiah Chapter Six begins with, "In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord..."; it then goes into a beauuuutiful vision the prophet had of The Lord and the Seraphs and such. Life changing i...