Why is religion in the business of moral policing?

[vorlon13]

Most any subject appended with "101" is a reference to it being the first class a person will attend on the topic. The basics and fundamentals are covered.

Math 101, English 101, Physics 101 are all the first steps in instruction in those topics.

So, Sunday School 101 would, presumably be similarly a shared body of knowledge imparted at the earliest stage of religious instruction. Items that 'everyone' knows about their religion, things they were first taught before anything else.

My error is assuming religious instruction has not devolved or even evaporated since I experienced it back in the early 60s.



Immortal Souls 101:

Immortal Souls are you, your body is merely a garment, your soul is YOU. Souls are conveyed via the breath. When you sneeze, for instance, and people say "God bless you", the impetus for that is that during a sneeze your Immortal Soul may be dislodged, as it were, from it's 'host garment', that is, your physical body. And while your Immortal Soul is dislodged from your body, you are ESPECIALLY prone to predation or influence from SATAN.

So, a quick invocation of "God bless you" will ward off SATAN and protect your Immortal Soul.

A dated (but telling) reference occurred during the sitcom All In The Family, when Edith asked if Hindus say "Buddha bless you" when someone sneezes around them. What made the line so funny is that it is, of course, absolute heresy to even think such a thing. Invoking the name of the Buddha during a sneeze would have the absolute opposite effect of invoking God!!

Also, when a person dies, you hear the phrase "gave up the ghost". This is another acknowledgement of how the soul is conveyed. The Immortal Soul, conveyed as it is upon the breath, will depart the body in the dying gasp. This was perhaps most poignantly demonstrated by Henry Ford (IANMTU) when he arranged to be with Thomas Edison as he lay dying, and Henry captured Edison's dying breath in a tightly stoppered jar.

So, where do people learn of the Immortal Soul and how it works if their instruction at Sunday School was deficient ?


The BIBLE !!


I suggest you start reading now.