tiberry

I understand how you got lost roachboy - I do that to people a lot...

Stated simply: Human beings have an innate desire to avoid responsibility. I'm attempting to make my case using to vastly disparate examples - corporate society and theology. My underlying hypothesis is that religion was created as a means to absolve mankind of the responsibility to do what's "right".

Don't get me wrong, I'm not an atheist (or maybe I am ) - I do believe Jesus was a man...a man that truly "got it". I do not believe he was the son of some God that exists as a separate entity, who is all powerful, infallable, all knowing, all judging [CERTAINLY NOT!] - or more specifically: someone we can blame for things that go wrong, someone to ask for things we want - and further justfiy our irrational concept by some corny excuse like "He works in mysterious ways..." when neither seems to work. Give me a break!! Accept the things that happen to you, there's nothing you can do to change them. Take responsibility for yourself and your actions!

To me, God exists in all of us. Its just that to most of us, that's too scary a proposition - that we are in total control.

- EDIT -

Just an afterthought to further drive discussion: When Jesus said (implied) "I am one with God"...did that necessarily mean that he was one with some separate being (the Lord)? Couldn't this just as easily have meant that "I accept that we are all one, and together we are God."?

__________________
My life's work is to bridge the gap between that which is perceived by the mind and that which is quantifiable by words and numbers.