When I started working on a paper based on religious leaders, and teachings I never knew that would lead me into some of the areas it has, like ancient aliens posing as gods, or ancient civilizations.
When you open that door to religion, all religions, since the beginning of time it gets strange, to begin to try to understand a faith, you need to understand the society that gave birth to it, then like a biologist studying the evolution of DNA over eons, you need to try to step back and look at the "DNA" of religion as its changed over time and with societies.
How many people know there was a time when faith taught there was no good or evil, that line of thinking arose much later. Or that the bible is incomplete, there were many books and oral stories which never made it into the bible. The Jewish faith has no fiery hell, nor real heaven, according to most Jewish texts when you die you pass into a place of greyness called Sheol.
Anyway I don't want to rewrite the paper for you all and bore you, or I would have just pasted a summery of the paper here, I just think how many of us really understand our own religious beliefs we espouse, or the history and changes that went into it? Before we judge anyone else for the faith, we really need to face the truths of our own, and our own ignorance about something we believe because its comfortable. We grew up with it, so we keep it close in a harsh world because it makes us feel better.
Apologies to anyone offended but when any "religious" person kills over something I think they've lost sight of what they believe, some of the things done by fundamentalists of every flavor are very scary, did people need to die because someone who doesn't share your faith makes a movie? Should anyone have to be attacked while there making the hardest decision in thier lives, which they will have to live with, or is the legal system the place for moral religious decisions to be made? Our founding fathers said no, the state doesn't have the right to dictate what I do to my body.
From what I have read every major religion teaches god/s gave us free agency, so why to people think its thier right to take away what the very god/s they worship gave? Anyway enough soap boxing, hope I haven't offended, and while I hope maybe what's been said maybe cause for reflection, maybe even tolerance of those different, somehow I doubt it, where a damned hard headed arrogant species, what would yous expect from a race that's survived what we have?
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