It's both funny and sad to see Christians attempt to fit the square peg of an ancient people's idea of morality into the round hole of modernity. The resulting contortions only highlight the cognitive dissonance on display.
Suffice it to say, the entire idea of an all-powerful god creating the universe, then telling it like it is to certain people living on a mud ball in some galaxy, and creating a convoluted system of judging and testing people to see if they can enter an idyllic afterlife (but only after they accept that he sent himself/his son down to said mud ball in order to create a path of salvation for those people after the vicarious sacrifice of himself/his son to himself, whereby the son/himself became a zombie for a bit) is idiotic.
Oh, it's clever in its delivery. The entire thing is predicated on the cultural fear of an angry father figure and the enticement of divine mystery. And it's set up perfectly as a cult, to both propagate and deny people from leaving once the hooks are in place. But that's no indicator of the value of the ideas professed by the religion. Scientology does the exact same thing.
For all the mental masturbation surrounding whether a god exists, nothing points to the ancient version of Twilight as being the actual one.
Suffice it to say, the entire idea of an all-powerful god creating the universe, then telling it like it is to certain people living on a mud ball in some galaxy, and creating a convoluted system of judging and testing people to see if they can enter an idyllic afterlife (but only after they accept that he sent himself/his son down to said mud ball in order to create a path of salvation for those people after the vicarious sacrifice of himself/his son to himself, whereby the son/himself became a zombie for a bit) is idiotic.
Oh, it's clever in its delivery. The entire thing is predicated on the cultural fear of an angry father figure and the enticement of divine mystery. And it's set up perfectly as a cult, to both propagate and deny people from leaving once the hooks are in place. But that's no indicator of the value of the ideas professed by the religion. Scientology does the exact same thing.
For all the mental masturbation surrounding whether a god exists, nothing points to the ancient version of Twilight as being the actual one.
"I was thirsty for everything, but blood wasn't my style" - Live, "Voodoo Lady"
