RE: I literally cannot avoid sinning; so, why...
July 22, 2023 at 8:22 pm
(This post was last modified: July 22, 2023 at 8:32 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(July 22, 2023 at 3:05 pm)Lek Wrote:(July 22, 2023 at 2:04 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: Why would creator of everything create murder and make it joyful?I haven't figured that out yet. While we're at it, I also have a question for you. Why would a universe that just happens to be here be so hostile to it's inhabitants?
god could have written it on everyone’s heart that murder is a very unpleasant thing to do. And rape would be another thing it could have programmed us not to want to do and get us to believe it is a free will desire not to rape or murder.
Don’t you think Lek?
It's not. Millions of species evolved and thrived for many millions of years.
Evolution doesn't care about individuals. It promotes survival of species.
We are indoctrinated with the notion of "individualism".
It hasn't always been that way. Individualism came from Greece in about 500-300 BC to the Levant.
It's actually why during that period, the Jewish prophets began to insist on monotheism, an individual deity.
Before that, Israel was polytheistic.
Before that, "immortality" consisted in the continuity of the male line.
That changed with individualism.
Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble. - Joseph Campbell 
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