As long as I'm on my high horse of confusion, allow me to continue this line of thought. If the bible is just a good book and nothing in it about Armageddon and the end of the world is true, then what will be done about the oppression in the world? Are the people who live on other continents lesser humans somehow? I've said it before and I'll say it again, I do not believe I am entitled. I believe I live in America based on luck. I could have just as easily been born in Ireland or the Philippines or any other country rife with oppression, fighting and poverty.
My parents live in an agricultural area. Many of the fields around them are empty. Why? The government is paying the farmers not to plant crops. There is a famine in Somalia and these fields sit empty. I'm told the reason is because if there is too much grain it drives the price down. So perfectly good ground sits empty.
Not that it would matter, I suppose. From what I understand the warring factions in these countries stop the efforts of humanitarians and the food either sits on docks and containers rotting and getting infested with rats or is intercepted and sold on black markets.
What makes people do these things to one another? What kind of person thinks sacrificing a few lives for their cause is okay? Or maybe its better stated who sacrifices lives and thinks nothing of it?
How many horrors can be attributed to religion? To someones interpretation of what has been written down in the bible? I believe we were created and as such I think we have a genetic need to believe in something. If the bible is just a good book, or a fable, what else is there? If it's not, if it really is the word of God, what do you do if you no longer have faith in everything you've read in it?
My parents live in an agricultural area. Many of the fields around them are empty. Why? The government is paying the farmers not to plant crops. There is a famine in Somalia and these fields sit empty. I'm told the reason is because if there is too much grain it drives the price down. So perfectly good ground sits empty.
Not that it would matter, I suppose. From what I understand the warring factions in these countries stop the efforts of humanitarians and the food either sits on docks and containers rotting and getting infested with rats or is intercepted and sold on black markets.
What makes people do these things to one another? What kind of person thinks sacrificing a few lives for their cause is okay? Or maybe its better stated who sacrifices lives and thinks nothing of it?
How many horrors can be attributed to religion? To someones interpretation of what has been written down in the bible? I believe we were created and as such I think we have a genetic need to believe in something. If the bible is just a good book, or a fable, what else is there? If it's not, if it really is the word of God, what do you do if you no longer have faith in everything you've read in it?
