Heh. The fairy tales are getting old.
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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian  Along time ago people lived in constant fear that a deity would smite them should they do wrong. |
How long ago? One millenium? Two? Three?
Because, last I heard, most people were afraid of the people waving whips around and telling them to do this and that or else no food for you. I don't think random deities had anything to do with it. Well, maybe in Mesapotamia, where the king just happened to be God, sitting on a stylish ziggurat.
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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian Every civillisation had some onipotent force who ruled their life and ruled their hearts. |
I'd let this pass if you defined "rule" with extremely sweeping broadness. I mean, these days, we call this omnipotent force "freedom". Free your mind, Neo.
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Originally Posted by Akashic_Librarian They asked where was this "God" in times of need a worry? Why did the "Sinners" not be struck with lightening like those in the old stories? |
Incidentally, these questions are also in the Bible. They're listed in Esther, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes; these I can be certain of off the top of my head. I'm pretty sure they're in Jeremiah, Isaiah, and Ezekial, too, but I could be wrong.
And yet many and most of the Jews retained their faith through the Holocaust.
I'm fine with your message, if you want to call it that; and of course I agree with it; it's a fine Gospel. But do you have to use revisionist history to do it? I mean, really. Check the akashic record yourself. If the medieval peasants lived in constant fear of anything, it was of the vassal lord's interest in their wife.
Really: where
do you get off being the spokesman for several continents full of dead people?