Originally posted by defcon5
The following is my opinion as a member participating in this discussion.
reply to post by smallpeeps
I'm guessing you grew up around Catholicism. Nothing like that ever occurred in my church, or any church that I would associate with. Not all Churches are bad, but there are bad apples in every bushel.As an ATS Staff Member, I will not moderate in threads such as this where I have participated as a member.
Please don't be a fool, or play the fool, if you are going to use that very dangerous tool, called the keyboard. Since you are a moderator on an IP forum. Since you wear the badge, and your whole post is surrounded by a disclaimer, really, I don't have to say anything about how totally controlled our modern world, is.
Or perhaps you have never heard of the people who say that the IP network, is the enemy of children, or the exploiter of children? Have you not sat in any American church, and hear them all say "The Internet is the tool of the devil" and have you not noticed that they ALWAYS use "the children's safety" as the banner under which they attack truth? Please do comment in detail, and I will respond in the same spirit.
Every religion has "Sunday School" or "Bible Class", where the kiddies go, while the adults go to a different place. Every religion has totally child-obsessive sports programs and teaching regimen. Every religion is child obsessed. Now the only question is this: Is Sunday School, designed to give different programming to the parents, as to the children. That is to say, the program is crafted differently, for the parent, than the programming which the child is designed to retrieve.
But really now, it is the State (as in the case of Hitler, the ultimate State-ist) who is also child-obsessed. So really both church (all churches) and states, that design programs to control and indoctrinate the young. And yet it's so funny because Adam and Eve, the whole pivot of the Abrahamic churches, were never children!
Yet Jesus, the savior/terminus of the Abrahamic religions, told his followers and devotees, to shut the hell up, and he moved them aside, and brought a child forward and told them, essentially, "Unless you drop all you stupid bickering and stupid ideas, and emulate this child, you will not be getting to Heaven." Well, that is how I would read his words and actions from those scriptures I am alluding to.
So the key question is, why did YHWH of the Abrahamic texts, never create children, and only saw the adults as being truly human (able to choose)? And why did his supposed son, totally mock the adults, and say that children were the truly godlike ones? Jesus plainly said that heaven belongs to children, hence, they hold the title to Earth. Remember how Jesus said the meek, would inherit the Earth? Well who is more meek than children? And it is children empowered, who will empower good (and meek) adults, who will be the adults that explain how to end wars, which is the ultimate goal of all children. Know this: The ending of war is the ultimate goal of children, because all children get wrecked and destroyed by war. This is an undeniable truth, and I bet Jesus knew this. He was not a tyrant, not an Alexander/Napoleon-type thinker and was therefore a better man. Peace is the way of joy and surplus.
So in essence, the God of Genesis, and his "son", Jesus, have a very different view of the human child, and of war itself.
Polar opposites really. And, therein, lies the key.




