Hammurabi, you are so sure of yourself. Every statement is a major
pronouncement of "The Truth." You have come as a messiah to save us from our
lives based on ignorance of "The Truth" or at least that is how your writing
appears to me. All of the scholars of the past in the area of religion were
just ignorant, superstitious peasants compared to you and your peers. How
interesting.
Well, Hello.
I appreciate the compliment and your perception of my self confidence. I presume you have some point to make?
When you say that all of the scholars of the past in the area of religion were just ignorant, superstitious peasants compared to me and my peers you undermine whatever point that you have by descending into ridiculous simplification and obfuscation.
For the most part, in religious scholarship of the past, it was done with the forgone conclusion that the studies would verify the "Christian" view of things. Also, it was not a privilege to the non clerical, as most of the peasants as you called them were illiterate.
Sadly, many great minds were never unleashed on this subject due to oppression from the church.
Fortunately the domain of God is getting smaller and smaller. New knowledge and science keep pushing out the trite explanations of old. Disease is the product of sin. The Earth is flat. The stars and Planets revolve around the earth. Adam, Eve and Alasaurus all lived here together with all of the other happy creatures in a world of bliss and no violence. The sun was made to stand still and seas parted.
Ah, those were the days.
I am presuming by your tone that if I had stated that the Lord God the Son and The Holy Spirit are one and I know that because the bible told me so that I would be more rightly proclaiming true knowledge and insight?
I do not believe in Messiah's and have come to save no one. I have made serious attempts to expand the reasoning powers of some people and free some people from ignorance and superstition. Guilty there.
<You said you would answer questions, so let me ask you....of all of the areas
of knowledge in this wide world, past and present, that need debunking, what
made you feel the world needed your efforts in the area of the history of
religion?>
Because of the piss ignorant actions of a lot of people affiliated with organized religion, mostly. Because 2600 years after the beginning of the Jewish Old Testament people are still blinded by absurd myths, superstitions and dogma that affect our lives today. Lobbying for prayer in school, teaching the quaint myth of Genesis as truth in school, legislating morality based on religious beliefs and generally a tremendous amount of rude, ignorant and simple minded folks that go door to door on quite Saturday mornings asking if one has been saved. I really do not like that last part. Oh, did I mention the absurd war in the middle east with rival religious factions killing each other in droves and the fundamentalist terrorist here in the USA that bomb abortion clinics and assassinate doctors, harass clients and staff and set bombs off at the Olympics in Atlanta where I live.
<To those who might question the need for the exchange, exploring conspiracy
is not just exploring the communicated word, but understanding why something
has been communicated.>
Umm, well are you just practicing with your keyboard or trying to say something?
The propagation of Christianity was a conspiracy to keep people ignorant, enrich the powerful elite that controlled the church, confiscated land, fortunes and spirits of those that disagreed. Of course, even Torquemada's mother loved him.
You see, I took the time in my spiritual quest to look outside of scriptures to find deeper, truer answers. I have an opinion based on research not blind faith.
Thank you for your comments, it is always a pleasure to converse with educated people that have a thesis.
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