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Originally Posted by Tophat665
The way I figure it is that 99% of organized religion is bullshit, and this has lead a lot of intelligent people to conclude that 100% of religion is bullshit.
Now, I am in no way a Christian (unless Recovering Catholic counts), but the various Christian sects are the ones that I am most familiar with. My aim is to try and figure out some way that one can get one's mind around it so that it could make any sense at all. There are a lot of very smart people out there who are also fairly devout. C. S. Lewis springs right to mind. Now that could be an entirely cultural thing, or it could be that they have come to some sort of understanding that makes the manifest evil done in the name of large organized religions beside the point.
So, what was JC up to? And what did that bastard Paul want us to think he was up to?
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Its doesn't have to be complicated, unless you make it so. Although I've read the entire Bible, except for Numbers where all the counting begins....
, I try to stick to the red letters (if you have a red letter edition). I think that rekna said it another thread, feed the hungry, cloth the naked, help the widowed and infirmed........in secret of course...
I agree that most organized religion is BS, which is why I'm totally non-denominational. I have read plenty of other books on the subject, some have been suggested already......Just make up your own mind, decide for yourself, do what works best for you.....Peace Out...
P.S. IMO, Paul seemed to forget many of Jesus' teachings.....I didn't care for the Pauline Epistles particularly........