You keep editing your post and adding things...
Their beliefs are simple: there is an uber-powerful god thing that created this whole Universe and put us here on Earth as some sort of personality test so he could pick the best to be his homies in what we call the eternal afterlife, in whatever form of Universe that god thing resides.
In the meantime, since he saw that humans were misbehaving with each other, he impregnated a human girl and the kid that came forth became Jesus... who walked the Earth... the whole of Judaea... teaching his very own and somewhat newish interpretation of the old writings concerning his dad.
Through some miracle, decades after the Jesus bloke goes away and becomes one third of the original god, someone put down those teaching into writing and they're mostly trustworthy.
(June 19, 2015 at 12:44 pm)Rhythm Wrote: It may not change what they believe, but one hopes it changes the manner in which they express what they believe, and how far afield they feel justified in exercising that belief.
Their beliefs are simple: there is an uber-powerful god thing that created this whole Universe and put us here on Earth as some sort of personality test so he could pick the best to be his homies in what we call the eternal afterlife, in whatever form of Universe that god thing resides.
In the meantime, since he saw that humans were misbehaving with each other, he impregnated a human girl and the kid that came forth became Jesus... who walked the Earth... the whole of Judaea... teaching his very own and somewhat newish interpretation of the old writings concerning his dad.
Through some miracle, decades after the Jesus bloke goes away and becomes one third of the original god, someone put down those teaching into writing and they're mostly trustworthy.
(June 19, 2015 at 12:54 pm)Rhythm Wrote:When was the last time you saw a god killing someone?(June 19, 2015 at 12:48 pm)pocaracas Wrote: Not exactly a moral thing... but hey... how do you find out what things disgust god?
People take it as a hint, that god doesn't like something, when he strikes them dead where they stand the very instant they do the thing that disgusts him.