tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post6068903457527005586..comments2024-03-28T15:26:12.621-04:00Comments on Blue Country Magic: Goodbye, Farewell, and AmenCountryDewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03243893531509380824noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post-76640823885524417312011-05-21T02:18:53.809-04:002011-05-21T02:18:53.809-04:00This sort of religion always depresses me. It'...This sort of religion always depresses me. It's pretty pathetic - believing in a god ready to destroy so much goodness and beauty at a stroke, believing in a god, too, ready to condemn so many to eternal torment. And as for the prospect of so many "good" christians up there in the "gods", leaning over the balcony to enjoy the spectacle of humanity in torment - well, hardly humane. How strange some religious people are: they spend their time coming up with bizarre scenarios of mass death and destruction, instead of turning some of that intellectual and imaginative energy to turning this world into a heaven on earth - which it could easily be, given that we are so rich, that there is so much wealth and ingenuity around that, fairly shared (as the feeding of the 5,000 demonstrated) it could easily sustain in dignity and comfort the entire human population. And do they? Oh no - they would rather imagine their own precious selves saved while the world and everyone left on it dies in misery. Not very redeeming, this kind of religion.Briarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06242731014996459484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post-17413805101913972572011-05-20T23:20:23.373-04:002011-05-20T23:20:23.373-04:00Now really... Everyone knows the world is supposed...Now really... Everyone knows the world is supposed to end <i>next</i> year. Those Mayans knew what they were talking about. ;)Heatherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17700809709293636333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32199165.post-90346850551156903162011-05-20T15:49:19.859-04:002011-05-20T15:49:19.859-04:00There have been end-of-timers since... well... the...There have been end-of-timers since... well... the beginning of time :-) Seriously, though, there was a huge Millenialist movement at the end of the first millenium of the Common Era, and random and sundry predictions since then, including, I'm sad to say, calculations from my Jewish brothers. I have to say though that our Messianic era is preferable to that of Revelations.redsneakzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03601491021519995930noreply@blogger.com