Damn! I just get back myself and find that Drich was gone the whole time I was! What a waste of a drippyless forum! Rotten luck that. 
But never mind. Welcome back, dude.
One thing that is never going to make any sense to me, never has and never will is this whole blood sacrifice thing. There is not any logic or rationality to it. We are talking about a supposed being who is infinite. All-powerful, all-knowing, all-everything. We, to him, would be as a paramecium is to us. No way, no how could anything that we ever do could mean jack to such a being. Sin is an empty concept. Always was. It was just a way for the priestly caste to keep the rabble in line. Get the great unwashed all worried about what their eternity will be like and maybe they'll behave better. If I had not had this kind of crap pounded into me by those damned nuns I never would have ever believed any of it. Fortunately I got over it in time. The whole yarn is insane, truly.
But never mind. Welcome back, dude.
One thing that is never going to make any sense to me, never has and never will is this whole blood sacrifice thing. There is not any logic or rationality to it. We are talking about a supposed being who is infinite. All-powerful, all-knowing, all-everything. We, to him, would be as a paramecium is to us. No way, no how could anything that we ever do could mean jack to such a being. Sin is an empty concept. Always was. It was just a way for the priestly caste to keep the rabble in line. Get the great unwashed all worried about what their eternity will be like and maybe they'll behave better. If I had not had this kind of crap pounded into me by those damned nuns I never would have ever believed any of it. Fortunately I got over it in time. The whole yarn is insane, truly.
“To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good for the world?”
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
― Christopher Hitchens
"That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject". - George Santayana
"If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed". - George Carlin
