Exactly , the idea of "heavenly grace " is really
a powerful one. But it is the grace of one
learning weave his way thru the vastness
of his own experience. It takes training much
more than it does a "promise " of life after death.
Of course i know as you say that speech and the written
word were mastered long before then . Vocal cords evolved when ?
Somewhere around 150K years ago I believe...
(might be wrong there)
Very powerful
tools , when you think of the ability to store
data , and preserve ideas , stories
concepts and feelings that are of a non-material
nature & which could be conveyed later on.
Very powerful stuff , Neocon, when we become able to not only describe & note the natural events in the world outside of us , but begin to also start to record
the events & phenomena of world of changes within
ourselves as we course thru life . We begin
to observe the seasons of the highly evolved psychological
and biological machines we really are...
playing in the field of time , space and change.
As to being "fair" with Christianity's dependance on miracles, a risen messiahs and fantastic happenings, and "Holy Lands" to prove it's beliefs,those are in fact their weakest case.
The strongest case for the falseness of these claims
I could ever make , is the denial that is so widespread
even today , that so many don't see the many
similarities between all the teachings , and
they choose only
to see the differences.
The "Big" picture doesn't rest on eternal life
and going to the Kingdom of God in heaven , or
returning to the Promised Land...those
are children's stories , Neo.
The promised Land could be Joshua Tree , or
Tibet , or somewhere in the peaks of the Andes,
or the Hawaiian Islands .
Depends where you are standing, and what
myth you want to believe. But forcing it on others
with the threat of eternal damnation, is the worst case scenario , in the guise of the truth.
That is being fair.... |
