(July 26, 2021 at 11:48 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Matters of degree are irrelevant. The belief system begins with the proposal that human beings are fundamentally broken, the earth has been cursed, and man deserves whatever misfortune or horror follows.
That the only remedy is the blood sacrifice of another, better, man.
Man, for his part, has never managed to do anything as horrific, and not for lack of trying.
Even as a Christian, I regarded this as a myth. I had already realized that whenever a writer said God did some natural event, it was the equivalent of someone saying "it allegedly happened, and God is in charge of everything, so I should attribute this to God - especially if I can make a story around it that benefits the priests ".
