Hi Brian.
I am fully aware that your post was to all believers, which is why I wrote of "deity beliefs" but it is the Christians in this country who are always hoping that my "seeking" will let them gain another soul for Jesus.
And...good grief, it is not possible to love everyone, but we can love individual believers even though we hate their belief system.
Let us face this fact; many human beings need to have an authority figure for comfort and guidance. Most of them have been told as children that they cannot choose for themselves to be good and to be strong, but must rely upon the authority figure, which is God, who is always right or is interpreted to be always right. And...who wants to be on the side that is wrong?
It's all well and good until somebody gets an eye poked out... And...there we have the problem with deity belief and the religion that supports it.
-Jeanne
I am fully aware that your post was to all believers, which is why I wrote of "deity beliefs" but it is the Christians in this country who are always hoping that my "seeking" will let them gain another soul for Jesus.
And...good grief, it is not possible to love everyone, but we can love individual believers even though we hate their belief system.
Let us face this fact; many human beings need to have an authority figure for comfort and guidance. Most of them have been told as children that they cannot choose for themselves to be good and to be strong, but must rely upon the authority figure, which is God, who is always right or is interpreted to be always right. And...who wants to be on the side that is wrong?
It's all well and good until somebody gets an eye poked out... And...there we have the problem with deity belief and the religion that supports it.
-Jeanne
"The Ox is slow, but the Earth is patient."
