Message #2686

[Martin]

I agree Boudi, and still it goes on. The Catholic church, the Evangelical churches etc, all pretend to know stuff they do not and cannot know. 

Part of it is insecurity.  People feel they have found something in their religion, something precious to them, and they fear that, if they admit to any part of the baloney being untrue, then they will lose what they have found. 

Part of it is control.  If you can set yourself up as the arbiter of truth, to decide who is wrong and who is right, who is in and who is out, then you have power over other people.

The big question is whether Christianity has actually become so tainted, whether it is carrying so much of this poppycock/power-corruption/prejudice that it has become something that ought to be ditched. The world, I think, needs to learn the lessons of Love. Can Christianity still be the vehicle for that?