Yes, I was not suggesting you are a theist, nor was there anything negative in calling you strange, it was more like saying you are very individualistic.
I am amazed at people telling me minute details of heaven, hell, what happens to us when we die... etc - So am I, that is what got me so fascinated in religion, kind of hooked you might say. I have mentioned that as a child I went to so many weddings, Christenings and funerals and I had a kind of fixation regarding the priests and ministers and ancillary acolytes. Their soft faces and weak hands, I mean I came from farmers and my fathers hands were always calloused. Their funny clothes. their crosses and shepherd crooks that nobody seemed to take any notice of, plus silly hats, ridiculous rituals, iconography, statues expressing agony, stained glass, somber settings, kneeling for this one part of the programme, standing for the next, saying amen as if your life depended on it.
I wouldn't really follow this nonsense even as a smallish child and it wasn't rebellion it was WTF is going one, have my atheists parents been invaded by body snatchers. Eventually my atheist mother would flick my ear or give the look and I would sort of become less noticeable.
Anyway, I'm waffling. Basically there are no religious experts, such a thing is impossible. There are learned people of course, but even they had not the slightest clue to the nature of God, the human spirit, life after death and so much more.
I hope you do know when you die, I hope I know as well. The study of science and teaching is worthy of the kingdom of God.
I think we all end up in the same place as well, but if there is justice then like will be attracted to like, so you'll have plenty of good conversation.
Christianity divided, it is a body that has all but decomposed. The Church was called the body of Christ, when that body has splinted into tens-of-thousands of sects, cults, churches then one can be forgiven for suggesting two things, one, that Christianity is so divided it has evolved into completely different religious forms and two the age of Christianity as a spiritual force has passed.
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