(March 16, 2023 at 10:08 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Famously, it doesn't handle iron working human worms very well, just like it can't snap it's fingers and "forgive" everyone.
You mean this line?
Judges 1:19 KING JAMES VERSION
And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.
I suppose they were viewing their world with their religious glasses on.
So, possibly that war was real and the author chose not to write “the lord was not with Judah”. Of course, he could have written it in a dozen different ways but who knows what lead them to that ^^^^ mess.
The jewish god can’t snap his fingers suddenly and forgive everyone because of a very logical reason: the believer combines the reality that he observes with his imagined god.
Just like me, he notices that life is hard, people get sick, people get a tooth ache, their brother suddenly dies of a heart attack at age 30, painkillers are not available during an operation, their 1 y old suddenly dies, etc.
They combine that reality ^^^^^ with this notion that there is a god that loves humans, cares for them and decided to save them using his son Jesus.
As someone has said “It is funny how christians bend themselves backwards to defend their faith”.
Yes, I have encountered some christians (and some hindus) that claim that all religions are correct and that they complement each other.
I took a guess that they are “modern” and they don’t want to tell their fellow man that their “other” religion is false and that they are worshiping false gods and they are going to hell.
But I guess some are explorers and they look into spirituality, budhism, the power of healing crystals, astrology, etc.
(March 16, 2023 at 10:08 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: This is a near exact replication of the circumstances that lead to christianity's emergence as a new faith among lapsed or disaffected subsets of the roman world as classical paganism collapsed.
Do you mean around 200 to 500 CE period?
The Cargo Cult people? I imagine that they are not technologically, scientifically advanced so they are susceptible to believing in just anything.
So when someone comes via an airplane and delivers stuff that has been mass produced using high performance machines, to them it all looks magical since they have not seen the entire infrastructure behind all that.
(March 16, 2023 at 10:08 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: For a specific example, look no further than the american se (or broadly red areas in general) where historically protestant white cultures are incorporating things like reincarnation, theological race realism, sympathetic magic, "natural cures" and terrestrial authoritarian radicalism into what they mean...when they say "christian".
I haven’t heard about this case.
