Going straight to the source
It's interesting to follow your own train of thought. It's not quite as interesting trying to rebuild the tracks from the old train of thought. So the only thing that can be done is to build a new set of tracks, but not try to put them where the old ones were.
I stopped attending mass several years ago. That's about the time I had my own Bible, so I decided that over the course of a few months, I'd read it and see everything for myself.
Now with the Bible comes legends like, "They say if you study it for 100 years, you've only scratched the surface." That's nice legend, but that's all it is, legend.
It ended up being a lot more brutal than I expected. Hearing about seven brothers getting tortured in the Apocrypha... hearing about the rape of a half-sister... the punishment a boy got for covering his father when he lying down drunk and naked.
More brutal? Isn't that sort of what you get with the government? And why do I find passages of Christ that disagree with what a lot of Christians believe?
"Have you not read that God said, 'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob.' He is not God of the living but of the dead." (Jesus vs. the Sadducees who don't believe in spiritual resurrection)
"For the wind comes and goes where it chooses, and where it comes from and goes, nobody knows, and so it is with those born of the spirit." (Jesus vs. general fundamentalism)
"You shall call no one Rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers. You shall call no one on Earth Father, for you have only one Father." (Jesus vs. entitlement).
With every religion, there is government. And a joke comes to mind. "How can you tell if a politician is lying? If his lips are moving." I also studied cultural studies for one year, and I remember a paradigm that defines it.
1. What Culture is said
2. What Culture is done
3. What Culture is left behind through text and objects
With most cultures, there's a huge discrepancy with 1 and 2. This is the same with religion. As a result, you end up with extreme cases of A and extreme cases of B. A Polack girl once complained to me, "Catholics do whatever they want during the week and they think it's all forgiven on Sunday." Also, I'm sure many of you have noted, being around people of certain religions or churches even is like being around police officers. They're no fun at all.
I also get those, "No swearing in (God's house) church!". I say, "Look around, your body is like a temple, and the moment you swear, you forsake your own church."
I'm not opposed to Christian institutions and religious sects, they have their way. But when it comes to government, it breaks one of the prime rules of existence: the freedom of will. "For God so loved the world that he sent his own, and whoever believes in him finds salvation". Note the word believe.
To believe - to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something, although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so
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Author: archromat
Location: Moncton New Brunswick Canada
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Age: 29
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