A discussion around family table.

[Scented Nectar]

Actually the sum of Christianity is contradiction. We start off as sinnners and try to live as good a life as Jesus would have wanted, knowing we'll never attain that. It would be very hypocritical without personal accountability. Our society, I feel, is drifting away from personal accounatbility and that of course bleeds into some religion. I do see the inevtable downfall of religon as an institution as a likely event, I'm just concerned at the cost that has.

If you are starting off as a sinner because of a distant ancestor eating something she was told not to eat, then where is personal accountability? How are you responsible for someone else's behaviour? Why does Jesus think you are a sinner for something you didn't even do? The result of ending religion's rule over people, will be REAL personal accountability. Little kids won't be held accountable, terrorized with worry they will be tortured eternally for not spending their lives making up for some other person's (who they never even met) table manners (don't eat that dessert yet, young lady!). Priests will be held accountable for aggrevated rape (hell is scarier than a gun or knife).