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  hardie karges 9:16 am on October 19, 2014 Permalink | Reply
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  Religions Gone Awry, Systems Rendered Asunder 

  

  Buddhist shrine in Sri Lanka

  Islam promotes discipline and ends up glorifying violence. Christianity promotes love and ends up glorifying sex. Buddhism promotes non-possession and ends up glorifying money. Hinduism promotes India. Judaism promotes Israel. How did our major religions go so badly wrong? Good question. An even better question is how to set them right again. It won’t be easy.

  Religion was long ago taken over by politics, and used as a tool for manipulation, souls for sale as the price of politics, people’s desire for meaning in life reduced to authoritarian submission and hopes for the best. Truth, beauty, and goodness have been traded for sex, money, and violence in some devil’s bargain, arbitrage of the soul, leveraged buy-outs of vestigial beliefs, so much debris and detritus… (More …)

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    chicagoja 11:22 am on October 19, 2014 Permalink | Reply

    I agree whole-heartedly. However, understanding God never required a religion, a church or even a holy book.

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      hardie karges 11:29 am on October 19, 2014 Permalink | Reply

      Amen.

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        chicagoja 1:30 pm on October 19, 2014 Permalink

        Except Amen is a reference to an Egyptian god. Funny where some terms come from.

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  hardie karges 4:20 pm on July 27, 2014 Permalink | Reply
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  Let There Be God (and on the Seventh Day We created God)… 

   

   

  

  Christian God

  The idea of a Michelangelo-like anthropomorphic God, wrathful and scheming (before Jesus made him all love-y dove-y), bad teeth and all, thunderbolt in hand, is so absurd and fantastic, that I’ve long wondered how such nonsense ever got started, and moreover, how it persists. My idea is that it originates in the feedback over death, probably around the time Neanderthals (no, not Me-anderthals) began burying their dead.

  We humans look for meaning, of course, as such is our curse, so some must have wondered about these newly dead: Where do they go? What will they do when they get there? The idea that people are here one moment, then gone the next, is a tough pill to swallow, after all. Even dogs go through mourning. I suspect the phrase “WTF” also originated around this time.

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