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tim
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Location: UK, West of London in Ber...
Registered: February 2002
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Some of the greatest persecution in the world is undertaken "in the name of god" (I use lower case on purpose here).
I am looking quietly at the overall Christian faith into which I was baptised, but in which I was never confirmed, by my own choice. I see some major paradoxes.
In all the paintings I have seen, the Christ figure is white, often blond, and very European. But Mary and Joseph were Jewish. I tend to ignore the immaculate conception totally. Jesus, son of Mary, would at least be a man with Jewish features. And among the Jewish peoples, by no means all are "white". It is perfectly possible that Jesus was of African stock. Black.
Same with Adam and Eve, of course. And that set me thinking about incest. We all, allegedly, go back to one man and one woman. So who mated with whom after them? And to complicate matters, when all except the noah family were wiped out in the rain, there was ONE family left, from an already restricted gene pool, and presumably they all mated with each other to create the human race.
Something is very fishy here, too. Incest on a grand scale.
Then we get little tales like Moses. "Honest, dad, I found him in a basket, in the bullrushes!" A likely story to ocver an illegitimate birth. Moses is the Pharoah's grandson!
And people who believe implicitly in such things without question then dare to persecute others in the name of their god
The also evangelise, scoring points by converting others to their beliefs. And during the evangelism are happy to decry others who do not agree with their views. Jehovah's Witnesses condemn homosexuals, for example.
If I carry on with this random thread I will offend all of those who have religion as their backbone. I wonder, though, if I will offend those who have faith as theirs.
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Official Hypocrisy
By: tim on Sat, 08 June 2002 09:44 |
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Re: Official Hypocrisy
By: ron on Sat, 08 June 2002 11:29 |
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Re: Official Hypocrisy
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Random jottings on random matters
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Religious practice
By: e on Sat, 08 June 2002 16:55 |
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A Thought...
By: Guest on Sun, 09 June 2002 20:13 |
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Is it really even tolerance?
By: trevor on Mon, 10 June 2002 03:10 |
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A little lost
By: tim on Mon, 10 June 2002 13:08 |
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Sinners
By: trevor on Mon, 10 June 2002 18:01 |
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Little Old Ladies
By: tim on Mon, 10 June 2002 14:43 |
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Re: Little Old Ladies
By: Guest on Mon, 10 June 2002 23:18 |
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Religion.... Opiate of the masses.....
By: marc on Tue, 11 June 2002 01:41 |
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