Hated by all.

Originally posted by wafflehead ↑

Firstly, this day and age is only modern in relative terms. The planet is still populated by superstitious people who will do and believe whatever it takes to fit in.

Secondly, if you read the Bible you will find it is no fairy story. The writing is complex and woven within poetic texts one finds touches of numerology, touches of astrology, allegory, metaphor. It's a very complex work for its age. The fairy stories aspect does arise from its long history when very simple folk from many centuries past read the work literally. Unfortunately as science stripped away the literal error revealing the allegorical truth, many refused to see with their own eyes or hear with their own ears. It's as though it was all important to preserve historical error.

'Why would you not spend your life searching for your own answers' - very true, great question. Though at the end of the day we need a critical mass of people to come to the same conclusion or we will not progress into a cohesive, peaceful global community.

'To me it seems Christians have no freedom, no freedom of individual thought, you are told what to believe from your parents, who were told from their parents what to believe and the cycle never stops' Another great point - everybody must move out from the shadow cast by their parents and discover their own truths, even if in the end they are the same truths.

'But really, to take advice or direction or inspiration from the Bible honestly seems to me farcical' If read in an open minded, open hearted state free of the clerical buffoons, the ocean of dead ritual, away from the men is silly hats and silly clothes, it contains a roadmap to a very satisfying kind of freedom.

'When I was a child I really believed I would live long enough to see the day that the whole deception of religion' The origin of religion goes back beyond the mist of time and will be part of the human experience for as long as humankind exists. But it will not be always be this fake stuff that rejects science, common sense and logic. It will be real, experiential religion.

I don't believe you meant to offend - religion is a filthy can of worms. The great conundrum of our age. The ordained who rape children. The so called wise councillors who reject science out of hand and cling to ignorance and superstition. The wars fought in the name of religion directly against the tenets of religion. The endless theft of money from the poor and gullible by industrialised religions. The marketing of useless religious products by the likes of Benny Hinn and other loonies, billions and billions of dollars worth of rubbish sold as blessed objects each year.

It must be that religious belief or a need for a spiritual life is so powerful that many people will join bad religions rather than be without that experience.

I understand your attitude because I felt the same for most of my life. But I do not dismiss out of hand the possibility that a new religion may emerge that will offer all that is potential in a religion.

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Good post. Thank you.