Lightbeing ...
The simple fact is, though, that some people cannot cope with the whole of the moral universe that tradition has thrust upon them. They need these reductions of God in order to make God serve against their fears.
It boggles my mind, too, but such considerations usually get put away for the time being. Right now it's like the problem with Americans. The stupid people have decided that equality means superiority. We can all be equal if we all just convert to Christianity and throw out the Constitution that allows that bastard Christianity to exist. Some people have such limited constructions of morality that the theocratic devil-play of Puritan Salem is the only way they can feel secure in their fictional affirmations of their legitimacy against fear.
It's quite sad. I cannot even begin to quantify how much of the human endeavor has been wasted on Christianity.
The temporal toll is easily measured. The human toll is lost to history; the economic toll an even more abstract consideration. The only other quantifiable toll has been the spiritual toll, which equals approximately infinity minus one.
I always loved that assertion Christians make: "Research of many religions!" Whatever. How many of those research forays were undertaken while under the Christian paradigm? For what purpose did you undertake the research? Mostly, you'll find that such research, if a word can be so abused, merely seeks affirmations of preexisting faith points in the Universe.
It does, indeed, boggle the mind.
thanx,
Tiassa
My advice would be to understand that the equality of individuals is a theoretic state respected by convention. In reality, there is great inequality between people. Just as some are faster or slower, some are smarter or more dullard, some are intuitive, some are numb.
The simple fact is, though, that some people cannot cope with the whole of the moral universe that tradition has thrust upon them. They need these reductions of God in order to make God serve against their fears.
It boggles my mind, too, but such considerations usually get put away for the time being. Right now it's like the problem with Americans. The stupid people have decided that equality means superiority. We can all be equal if we all just convert to Christianity and throw out the Constitution that allows that bastard Christianity to exist. Some people have such limited constructions of morality that the theocratic devil-play of Puritan Salem is the only way they can feel secure in their fictional affirmations of their legitimacy against fear.
It's quite sad. I cannot even begin to quantify how much of the human endeavor has been wasted on Christianity.
The temporal toll is easily measured. The human toll is lost to history; the economic toll an even more abstract consideration. The only other quantifiable toll has been the spiritual toll, which equals approximately infinity minus one.
I always loved that assertion Christians make: "Research of many religions!" Whatever. How many of those research forays were undertaken while under the Christian paradigm? For what purpose did you undertake the research? Mostly, you'll find that such research, if a word can be so abused, merely seeks affirmations of preexisting faith points in the Universe.
It does, indeed, boggle the mind.
thanx,
Tiassa