<For a start many religions call it it gender neutral, which, if I'm allowed a guess, may be accurate. Other religions are geared for normal peoples perception of matters.>
I meant the actual male person who claimed to be the Prophet [and for whom profit was often the primary issue - getting the girls and getting to wear the best clothes being the next]. For example Mr Christ, Mohammed, Buddha, Karl Marx, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Osama and all the other wannabe alpha males - who was it running the trip to Hale-Bopp? The followers of these people usually end up in grim situations, killing other people who are not true believers, being killed by other people fighting back, or killing themselves. At least it's evolutionarily self-limiting, as are all defective consequences of mutant DNA.
Sure, Christianity is fairly tame these days, provided you comply with the religious edicts, or you get put in gaol, and killed if you resist while asserting your freedom - if you want to call that tame. It's tamer than the lack of choice that Osama offers [sneak attack and destruction] if you don't comply and even if you do [plenty of Moslem collateral damage in WTC].
So, if I have to have an alpha male singing the praises of his wacko beliefs, I suppose I'll take GeorgeW, who at least is hemmed in by elections and a constitution which can't be torn up too casually, even to catch terrorists. But I won't be in Nirvana when GeorgeW is undisputed world heavyweight champion.
US foreign policy is essentially a crusade and GeorgeW got it right first time, though he was alleged to have mis-spoke. The world is either with the USA or against it according to GeorgeW's weird theory of existence. That means they are the centre of the universe, the boss and everyone else on earth can just damn well do as they are told or get a bullet through their head. While Christianity isn't compulsory, those who believe the same wacko stuff as GeorgeW will get the money and power [not to mention the girls that Bill C didn't get].
Any aliens who don't go along with it will be tried and executed by a military tribunal 60% majority. Well, I guess I'd better convert to the one true belief and worship at the shrine of GeorgeW. Those Crusaders sure do have big guns!
Mq
PS: When the various versions of the bible were written, it was always done by people. Nobody was wandering around in the desert one day and found a tome sitting there with "Merry Christmas, with love from God" written on it [and if they did, they should have been a bit suspicious]. It's the word of the people who wrote it. Now MY words are the true words of wassup; you can take it to the bank. I have got a direct hotline to the big-time. Take it on faith.]
<When the good Lord created the earth and the heavens in six days, I did not see a scientific definition of "day" in the bible. Maybe the perception of the peoples in the intended audience 2k+ years ago were not familier with time dilation, geological ages, numbers bigger then a few thousand head of sheep etc.>
That's because they were living a much more rustic life and they wrote it based on what was going on around them at the time. |
