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.
They believed that the god of the Old Testament (who liked all the murder and cruelty) was in fact a fake god who had trapped our divine souls in a corrupt physical realm.
The real god then sent Jesus
Wait, there are more than one god level deity?
Maybe the Romans were onto something with their pantheon of the gods after all.
Did God purposfully let the Old God run rampant nearly wiping life out on the plantet while he chilled out on his cloud not being omnipitent?
Maybe he only turned up from another solar system in time for Jesus being conceived or maybe he was an offspring of the Old God - so many possibilities to explain this situation.
Sounds like the whole One True God thing is as full of holes as a Swiss cheese.
The Dualist sects (Manichaeans, Paulicians, Bogomils, Albigensians) believed that God created Heaven, the spirit, souls and suchlike, but Satanael created the Earth and physical bodies. Because earthly things were impure, they lived very ascetic lives. Their leading people were 'perfecti', who abstained from marriage and many other things of the material world. They were persecuted by both the Orthodox and Latin churches and bloody Crusades were organised against them, notably in southern France.
