by AK - Jeff 11 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
No, Shamus, I don't necessarily believe that Christianity is the way to go. Just the opposite actually at this point. I am quite turned off by it.
I only mention the Bible and Christianity due to that being my primary exposure here. I actually don't think religion is the way to go at all - no matter the religion.
Jeff
"After all, didn't the entire Jewish/Christian perspective get started with the Genesis account that depicts a Sneaky Snake [later labeled as Satan], who convinced an ignorant naked lady in paradise to eat some fruit from God's garden, thereby requiring that several thousand years after the damage was done Jesus to come and die for all of us sinners? We sinners had no input. And now 2000 years later we still are waiting for this man to come again and fix things?
That is not an 'all black and white' opinion. That story is ridiculous."
Why exactly is it so 'ridiculous'? Just because it resembles somewhat a fairytale and doesn't confirm with our modern, western world view of reality? Just because we don't see miracles happening today? How do we know it wasn't all true? How do we know the miracles and supernatural events portrayed in the bible didn't happen? How do we know that spirit beings (God/angels) for thousands of years did intervene directly in mans affairs and perform miracles but for their own good reasons they desisted from doing that two thousand years ago?
You see, we can't know anything for sure about the ancient past or distant future. It's the same argument for belief in God or not. You can't prove it scientifically and you can't disprove it scientifically. Hardcore atheists are just as arrogant and unscientific as hardcore bible fundies. The only logical and reasonable position is a view that is somewhere in the middles, where nearly all truth lies, a kind of agnostic view with a healthy lashing of scepticism, erring one way or the other, but to never close ones mind entirely. It makes no sense to just say something is completely false just because it seems 'ridiculous'. Where do we draw the line on what we say is historically true and what is sheer myth? Two thousand years from now there will be things and events which now seem to us to be 'ridiculous' and impossible, just as today many things that we presently accept as commonplace would have been dismissed as 'ridiculous' or impossible two thousand years ago?
