During the normal working day routine something occured to me that has been in the back of my mind for some time.
During bible times, scriptures dont appear to have a sense of humour, I believe its because life was (and his) serious, they were very dependent on what they made and ate, life must have been tuff, no diswashers, no cars, no gas or electricity etc.
Fast forward to today, we work for the rest of our lifes but confort standards have increased, we have a huge selection of foods and entertainment, we go home to spend time with our loved ones, watch tv not realising in our own little way we have been condition to think during these years, that we dont think about tommorrow-death, we can suffer from some disease, the animals we eat suffered for our pleasure of eating meat, still in our time people die from starvation, natural disasters, crimes and war.. reality bites, dont know who said that but its very true.
And while my dad prays before dinner for God to help all brothers, "brothers" suffer, die, and others still die of starvation. If I was ever going to reconcile the bible with reality, the same question that turned Bart Ehrman into an agnostic "why does god permit suffering" the most logical conclusion (and while faulty)I can come up with is that god is impartial, as it says it rains on both the good and the bad. Since the bible is faulty I could go one step further and say by what I see around, that while the creation of life (plants, animals etc) are intelligent, what or who ever created us either forgot about us or does not us to know, or does not want us to understand at this time.
When watching the royal wedding, watching the priests and royalty, I wonder how much blood and sacrifice went into all that gold and monarchy wealth. Reading into ancienty history one thing that stands out is human nature, indeed visions are short sighted by kings that in the name of God conquered nations only for those nations later on to claim independence, when humans have power they do really stupid things and continue to, our economy system (economy, most misleading word in all language vocabularies) is not benefitting everyone (it could).
You can see where I am going with this, I dont want it to drag on but being an ex jw, we can still see people living a lie in many cults and while out we have the freedom, there are still human aspects that in-slave us like nationalism, this economic system that needs a global revolution, and while that wont solve all problems....life is still a big joke.
