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In the beginning, man created God in his own image
To the editor,
With all the talk about religion of late, I would like to advance my own opinion best put by the Roman philosopher Seneca: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Thomas Jefferson also made a pointed statement, that religion (Christianity) has made the world half hypocrites and half fools.
I would like to remind Mr Demakowski that the life and death of Jesus are not supported by any primary historical documents. All we get is hand-me-down stories written almost into the next century. The same was done with Islam (Hadiths) and Hinduism and probably countless more. Did you know that the "son of God" Mithras, and Isis and Krishna are all said to be born of virgins? Did you know that Mithras said I am the way? Did you know he said the only way to salvation was to eat of his flesh and drink of his blood? Even Hercules was born of the union of God and a human woman.
It's the same old story with different faces. And Krishna ascended into heaven in a fiery chariot on his last day! Just like Enoch!
Since the late 1800s, Biblical Archaeologists have tried to prove the Bible. What has emerged is exactly the opposite. There is no record of Jews in captivity. There isn't any evidence of any Exodus of thousands in the Sinai. There is no evidence of a world-wide flood. There is no evidence for any Moses or Abraham. There was never any great Kingdom under David or Solomon. Just a big tribe. Even the Flood story is a Babylonian myth; a knock-off written circa 2000 BCE called the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Every religion is a brother, sister, or cousin of another because they all come from human imagination and an attempt to "supernaturalize" our moral sense and our purpose in life. Instead, it perverts the moral sense with all kinds of speculative bells and whistles. How moral is slavery as regulated in the Bible. The ethnic cleansing of religion and tribes by Israelites? The killing of people with different Gods? I see a capricious monster when I read the old testament.
In the beginning, man created God in his own Image. Crazy one day, loving the next.
James Veverka
Tilton
With all the talk about religion of late, I would like to advance my own opinion best put by the Roman philosopher Seneca: "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful."
Thomas Jefferson also made a pointed statement, that religion (Christianity) has made the world half hypocrites and half fools.
I would like to remind Mr Demakowski that the life and death of Jesus are not supported by any primary historical documents. All we get is hand-me-down stories written almost into the next century. The same was done with Islam (Hadiths) and Hinduism and probably countless more. Did you know that the "son of God" Mithras, and Isis and Krishna are all said to be born of virgins? Did you know that Mithras said I am the way? Did you know he said the only way to salvation was to eat of his flesh and drink of his blood? Even Hercules was born of the union of God and a human woman.
It's the same old story with different faces. And Krishna ascended into heaven in a fiery chariot on his last day! Just like Enoch!
Since the late 1800s, Biblical Archaeologists have tried to prove the Bible. What has emerged is exactly the opposite. There is no record of Jews in captivity. There isn't any evidence of any Exodus of thousands in the Sinai. There is no evidence of a world-wide flood. There is no evidence for any Moses or Abraham. There was never any great Kingdom under David or Solomon. Just a big tribe. Even the Flood story is a Babylonian myth; a knock-off written circa 2000 BCE called the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Every religion is a brother, sister, or cousin of another because they all come from human imagination and an attempt to "supernaturalize" our moral sense and our purpose in life. Instead, it perverts the moral sense with all kinds of speculative bells and whistles. How moral is slavery as regulated in the Bible. The ethnic cleansing of religion and tribes by Israelites? The killing of people with different Gods? I see a capricious monster when I read the old testament.
In the beginning, man created God in his own Image. Crazy one day, loving the next.
James Veverka
Tilton
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