RE: Sharia law anyone?
March 28, 2019 at 12:48 am
(This post was last modified: March 28, 2019 at 12:49 am by fredd bear.)
(March 27, 2019 at 11:19 pm)Gae Bolga Wrote: Give LRons crew a millennium. Tally it up then. Catholicism will be as much a memory as the temple of apollo. The Hubbardites will wonder how anyone could have ever believed such nonsense in the first place.
The Prophet Tom will have ushered in a new era of prosperity and cruise line daytrips out of the morass of that superstitious chaos, watching over all of us as he effortlessly floats through the sky unchanging and immortal.
Checking in every now and again to shuffle abusive ai e-meters from center to center. Evangelists will log on to AF to wave their voluminous historical documents in the face of non-believers.
Sounds about right.
I'm thinking of one of my favourite poems. 'Ozymandias" by Shelley. A cautionary tale against arrogance.
"I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
That led me to think of the life span of religions. Christianity has been around for 2000 years, and they think that's a long time.----As far as I can tell, the Egyptian religion lasted at least that long. Historical Vedic Religion has been around since about 1900 bce .
Buddhism began around 600 bce.
Christianity really hasn't got a lot to boast about, in terms of originality, longevity, or moral values.. A lot of members though? Very misleading. Once a person is baptised, he/she is counted by the Church unless he/she has officially repudiated their faith. That is rare.
Out of the 2 billion Catholics claimed by the Church, the number of devout followers could be as low as one quarter of that figure.Be willing to bet the number of devout Muslims is nowhere near the billion claimed.
