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kbertsche
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Message 61 of 162 (782789)
04-29-2016 12:38 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Tangle
04-26-2016 12:13 AM


Tangle writes:
But when you see all this first hand one after another in quick succession - all the bell ringing, incense burning, joss stick lighting, bowing, praying, fasting, food fetishes and dietary retrictions - you have to come to the conclusion that we just made it all up and people will believe just about anything at all if it's taught them young enough and the promises that the belief systems give them are attractive enough - and/or the penalties for disbelief unattractive enough.
Interesting observations. I had some similar observations when I visited the Holy Land a number of years ago. The Catholics, Orthodox, and Muslims all seemed to copy one another. They all had excessively ornate houses of worship. They all had shrines with footprints in the rock where Jesus or Mary or Mohammed ascended to heaven. (The Jews tended to avoid these excesses, however.).
I didn't conclude that they "made it all up", but I did conclude that the forms of Christianity that were on display in Jerusalem had been badly distorted and compromised in comparison to biblical Christianity.
Tangle writes:
There's no consistency and there's no rhyme or reason to it. If there is a God he's having a laugh.
Or He is very sad at what some of His professed followers are doing.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." — Albert Einstein
I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives us a lot of factual information, puts all of our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us. It cannot tell us a word about red and blue, bitter and sweet, physical pain and physical delight; it knows nothing of beautiful and ugly, good or bad, God and eternity. Science sometimes pretends to answer questions in these domains, but the answers are very often so silly that we are not inclined to take them seriously. — Erwin Schroedinger

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