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Originally posted by Karilla
My body is completely fornicated up by CRPS. The Human body has some serious design flaws in general if you ask me (knees are such a crappy bit of engineering!). If I were a Christian I'd be in church every sunday asking for a refund.
Also, as Eddie Izzard says in "Stripped": If there was a god then why didn't he flick Hitler's head off? Can't interfere? Then what effing use is He?
Originally posted by randyvs
Believe in God.
Don't believe in God.
Believe in a crazy God ?
Seems you're the founder of a new religion ?
edit on 11-7-2011 by randyvs because: (no reason given)
The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.
This has led me to think that the being written about in the Bible is crazy. I think God is crazy.
Originally posted by DINSTAAR
I don't know if its just me, but I was raised in a Christian home and I have read through the Bible and did all the VBS's, camps, and big events like Promise Keepers, and now I find myself disgusted with Christianity and more recently, the Bible in particular. This has led me to think that the being written about in the Bible is crazy. I think God is crazy.
Göbekli Tepe, to Schmidt's way of thinking, suggests a reversal of that scenario: The construction of a massive temple by a group of foragers is evidence that organized religion could have come before the rise of agriculture and other aspects of civilization. It suggests that the human impulse to gather for sacred rituals arose as humans shifted from seeing themselves as part of the natural world to seeking mastery over it.
French archaeologist Jacques Cauvin believed this change in consciousness was a "revolution of symbols," a conceptual shift that allowed humans to imagine gods—supernatural beings resembling humans—that existed in a universe beyond the physical world. Schmidt sees Göbekli Tepe as evidence for Cauvin's theory. "The animals were guardians to the spirit world," he says. "The reliefs on the T-shaped pillars illustrate that other world."
Puzzle piled upon puzzle as the excavation continued. For reasons yet unknown, the rings at Göbekli Tepe seem to have regularly lost their power, or at least their charm. Every few decades people buried the pillars and put up new stones—a second, smaller ring, inside the first. Sometimes, later, they installed a third. Then the whole assemblage would be filled in with debris, and an entirely new circle created nearby. The site may have been built, filled in, and built again for centuries.
Bewilderingly, the people at Göbekli Tepe got steadily worse at temple building. The earliest rings are the biggest and most sophisticated, technically and artistically. As time went by, the pillars became smaller, simpler, and were mounted with less and less care. Finally the effort seems to have petered out altogether by 8200 B.C. Göbekli Tepe was all fall and no rise.
Originally posted by Harro
My advice to you is to pick up a subject or two at a college and study theology. You might benefit from some more insightful, academic readings of the bible rather than relying on those from your childhood. I'm sorry you are raging against your upbringing but, whilst I respect your opinion on your take of the Bible, you may want to inject some rigour via more learned opinions.