I find it interesting to note that in the bible, god killed untold multitudes of people (including babies and children). Usually though extremely unpleasant methods like drowning, burning and plague.
Satan killed around 10.
I don't know where the morality is.
I usually avoid posting about religion- but I just don't understand the logic of divorce being worse than murder. Market research being worse than murder. stability deprivision being worse than murder.
Desmond, I'm sorry but I don't get it.
One interesting thing that I like to think about is that the Antichrist is reckoned to precede the end times. If we are approaching the end times, I wonder if people look to the newly elected leader of the free world, who wouldn't know how to live by one of Jesus's principles if it hit them in the face, and think... "hang on... wait a minute.. maybe, just maybe I have go this all wrong?!"
I find it interesting to note that in the bible, god killed untold multitudes of people (including babies and children). Usually though extremely unpleasant methods like drowning, burning and plague.
Satan killed around 10.
I don't know where the morality is.
I usually avoid posting about religion- but I just don't understand the logic of divorce being worse than murder. Market research being worse than murder. stability deprivision being worse than murder.
Desmond, I'm sorry but I don't get it.
One interesting thing that I like to think about is that the Antichrist is reckoned to precede the end times. If we are approaching the end times, I wonder if people look to the newly elected leader of the free world, who wouldn't know how to live by one of Jesus's principles if it hit them in the face, and think... "hang on... wait a minute.. maybe, just maybe I have go this all wrong?!"
Infodump from a special interest I phased through about 30 years ago…
The original Christians were what is now described as gnostics. They believed that the god of the Old Testament (who liked all the murder and cruelty) was in fact a fake god (the demiurge) who had trapped our divine souls in a corrupt physical realm.
The real god then sent Jesus to provide us with the knowledge (gnosis) to free our souls from this prison.
It was the Romans who later very much changed the nature of Christianity to what we see now.
I’m very much an atheist but the beliefs of the early Christians seem more sensible and consistent than those they were replaced with.
