(08-06-2023, 05:23 AM)727Sky Wrote: Pretty normal for religion to come out when people or a society is under duress. Many have been on their knees praying for salvation as the bullet or blade finds them.
Maybe or for sure the world will end soon, "because I am miserable" has been used by all religions at one time or another. Remember all the preachers or false profits that gave a time and a date for the end...? If a god wants to destroy his creations every so often I think I would be ready for a new god who has better clarity of thought..
Yeah, I'm not trying to offend anyone, and I don't knock anybody for their beliefs, but the whole fire and brimstone thing seems a bit psychotic.
God created us, he knows our nature, and if we're strictly supposed to be good, God would have made us that way. If the devil and demons are corrupting us, then again it's not our fault, and we don't deserve to be annihilated.
Also psychotic is the God who told Abraham to sacrifice his son who Abraham loved, and prove his faith in God. Again, psychotic. I liken that to if I owned an ant farm, could communicate in ant, and bellowed down at one of the poor bastards, "kill your offspring, and prove your devotion!"
I'd be put away. Maybe God never did any of that.
Maybe rejecting man-made religion itself is the real test from God, to see through it all and just be good human beings to each other. Who wouldn't want that?