RE: The need to believe?
July 11, 2017 at 6:49 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2017 at 6:52 pm by Brian37.)
(July 11, 2017 at 6:12 pm)Succubus Wrote:(July 11, 2017 at 11:16 am)*Deidre* Wrote: I think part of that passage is designed to get believers believing that with Jesus, they can do the impossible from a human pov. It's those very passages that work to erode one's own confidence even though it might not seem that way. Over time, you go from thinking that you can't do the impossible without Jesus to thinking you can't do anything without him.
Around and around we go, endless verbiage. Deidre, your mind is host to a parasite, a mind virus. As the man said:
Quote:"A temple is worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever."
Iain M Banks
Deidre. Did it ever once cross your mind that your only problem is, you need to grow up?
If I am reading Deidre correctly, it really isn't a different principle than training a pet. Even lions and tigers will do what a human trains them to do if they don't understand they could rip them to shreds. IF IF IF I am reading the black bold correctly, I agree.
Religion, political party, and even economic views only have the power that humans give the leaders.
No matter how wrong any faction might be, be the faction about politics, religion or economics, all it takes is one person, or a group of people to lead others down very dark roads. But let me make this perfectly clear, this agreement DOES NOT MEAN that the magic baby and zombie god story of the bible are true. But in that it is easy to brainwash masses of people to do your bidding.
