21-12-2014, 10:13am
I think BB is spot on there Pete.... Find an Old Testament and start reading... God was a vengeful, wrathful, spiteful and ruthless being that when not inflicting plagues happily cast us into the eternal fire for things we, personally, hadn't even committed... Remember each Christian will go to hell until their baptism for Adam &neves first sin.
Organised religion was the way to control the masses through fear with a hope of eternal Eden but only from suffering. The man religions were also those practised by the rich, powerful and elite who then concreted their power base by attaching the smaller, more peaceful, beliefs. The cry of witch and heathen rang out for centuries....
When I left the church at the wise age of 14 I became an Athiest but over the years I turned into more an Agnostic. Either way I have always seen that no belief is the problem but the formalising of that belief into a religion.
All just my point of view of course.
Organised religion was the way to control the masses through fear with a hope of eternal Eden but only from suffering. The man religions were also those practised by the rich, powerful and elite who then concreted their power base by attaching the smaller, more peaceful, beliefs. The cry of witch and heathen rang out for centuries....
When I left the church at the wise age of 14 I became an Athiest but over the years I turned into more an Agnostic. Either way I have always seen that no belief is the problem but the formalising of that belief into a religion.
All just my point of view of course.
BATFINK (aka Tony)
GOD gave us a mind to use.........
Suzuki gives us a reason to loose it!!!!
GOD gave us a mind to use.........
Suzuki gives us a reason to loose it!!!!