[kj] (OT) The Religion of Peace, Love and Understanding

[bongo]

"due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been
postponed indefinitely..."


On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Bette Dillinger <bettedillinger at live.com>wrote:


>  Really, your post is one of the few moderate, thoughtful posts I have read

> about Christianity on the Web!

>


why thank you!  ...and just when i thought i had killed the thread, lol.




> I think the concepts such as "original sin" etc, are metaphors.

>



yeah i reckon alot of that stuff is, but i'm not so sure about original
sin...
i have no belief, but i do have ponderings... why is the human ego so out of
place? ancient stories about gods and mankind mingling? and other snippets
that i've picked up or mused upon.. the REAL story of the human race, untold
through thousands of years, traces of tangible past realities falling into
the forever unknowable, at least to our everyday senses...



>

> What Cayce reading have you done?

>



i've got about half a dozen of his books, (or, books about him/on him) and
just listened to the audio book 'edgar cayce - an american prophet' which
blew my mind afresh!  those in danger of the indifference of mundane
everydayness should seek out what this guy was all about.. i dare you to
dedicate the hours!

=)




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> From: humanhybrid666 at gmail.com

> Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 22:22:02 +1200

> To: gathering at misera.net

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> Subject: Re: [kj] (OT) The Religion of Peace, Love and Understanding

>

> well, i've been rather anti-christian these last few years, very much

> so...altho, to me, divinity is everywhere...

>

> these last few weeks tho, i've been listening to 'the politically incorrect

> guide to the bible' which has opened my eyes to the fact that the christian

> mindset has given us many good things that society has benefited from...

> like the age of the magnacarta, and the attitudes of the american founding

> fathers who penned the declaration of independence ... i see how easy it is

> to slam the religious nutters, hardly a fair fight, but credit where its

> due, it has also had some positive effects on our unraveling culture.   (not

> that peace cant be achieved without the bible..)

>

> there was one bit saying that those cultures that had large christian

> populations had more personal and political freedoms than those cultures

> with smaller christian based populations.. broke it down with numbers and

> stuff too...

>

> to each their own, as long as the mind and the conscience are used...

>

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> i am very interested in the initial cause/concept of the twisted biblical

> story of original sin... i have my own idea's, influenced by some edgar

> cayce readings,  and i do think that it does refer to some actual relevant

> happening, but, who can know??  doesn't stop me pondering...

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> "due to a lack of trained trumpeters, the end of the world has been

> postponed indefinitely..."

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