Mantus.... educated quess or not, what you said matches almost to a "T" with my own educated guess. It actually expanded it.
I primarily see the "control the masses" angle, coupled with the "wow, this brings us great power" thing. Thus the influence of the Catholic church as a political entity.
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Originally posted by chavos
if you acknowledge that the world is fairly broken-people hurting each other, etc... then you'd pretty well have to beleive a benevolent God would take issue with said problems. But to quote Rev. Rathbun, "the more i read the book, i can't tell the judgement and the mercy apart."
When judgement of sin is connected and bound up in God's mercy and forgiveness...its not something to be afraid of....its about being refined and restored, no rejection and anger.
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Now that sure sounds like someone, somewhere is giving hope to those masses that have nothing.... why else continue you live. Live to die so you can have everything in heaven. Well, what's the point in staying here then??
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Originally posted by tecoyah
each individual will interpret "god" or the creator, according to the many aspects of experience and intellect. the chances of your version matching those of another are pretty much nil. while the general outline of this entity may be similar, the details will differ dramatically upon scrutiny.
thus there can be no true "god" for the masses, only many versions of that which has been created for you, either by the entity itself, or one of its many minions.
there is of course, the possibility that one might actually think it has placed a perfect picture of itself wlthin you and hundreds of thousands of others. should one believe this to be truth, my pity is yours.
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I think most has been created by the "minions", and who the heck are they??