DBT I believe and read 'Grimms' Fairytales' - much more fun, at least all the baddies really get a thrashing at the end of the story.
Mankind is still waiting for Satan (and his boss) to make an appearance, when we have just about been the most horrific animals this planet has produced - and keep on behaving in that way and would have thoroughly deserved being whisked off to hell multiple times during our progress through recorded history.
Have the heavens opened to swallow them up, when ancient peoples, so-called 'cultures', including the venerable Ancient Jews of the Middle East slaughtered one another in the most horrific manner (read it, its news, its all in the Old Testament!)
Has there been a helping hand reaching out from the skies to rescue the thousands of Christian believers who were publicly crucified for the amusement of Roman audiences in their various sporting arenas?
More recently: has there been someone above listening to the suffering of the Jews, Gypsies, honest men, priests, enslaved, incarcerated and killed by Hitler? or what of the millions who died in Stalin's Gulags or Mao Tse Dung's (yes 'dung') Cultural Revolution?, or how about the charming Pol Pot of Cambodia's - didn't he deserve to be struck by lightning or whisked off this earth? Now people in Ethiopia are slaughtering one another and no-one gives a damn!
Re Paul/Saul: please do your own checking outside the Bible Stories, about his existence and the reality of his being - quite interesting, if you dare - just a hint: physically he was not impressive and most likely homosexual and also more Greek than Hebrew, at least culturally.
It is really sad, that we need stories and beliefs to keep us from behaving badly - and it isn't working, anyway,
And dear, dear
@wotsup and others like him, who expect the 'Second Coming' very soon - how often was He supposed to have
Come by now?
Please live your lives happily, go to church, if it makes you happy, but stay focused on reality and watch and correct your/our politicians, they are the only ones who can get us all into trouble!
We need every man, woman's mind and body and their active participation on board of Mother Earth's cause now, because we have f.....d up the world big time, it needs fixing for the sake of all the wonderful creatures who rely on her.
Stay focussed and remain in the present - your friends, wives, children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews will thank you.
and did I tell you, it's in the Bible: we are all related!
I thank you
Taurisk
