SPN jis
What scares me the most about at least some of these Peoples, is that they not only deny most things scientific; like Climate Change, the threat to our entire species posed by Asteroid Impacts, Supervolcanos, and super-bacteria (which sounds 'good' to them, as they like to see such things as evidence that the highly desired 'Judgement Day' is a commin'!); they also promote all things Biblical - including the idea that we (they/We/Us/Them/Whom-So-Ever) must, By Direct Command Of GOD ALMIGHTY, (continue to) "Go forth and prosper."
As you may or may not know, in the Book of Genesis (First book of Old Testiment; Jewish Bible; etc.) God commanded Moses, and the Children of Israel, after years of wandering in the desert looking for the "promised land", to do just that.
Thus; in a manner totaly unlike us practical, enlightened, humanist, not too dogmatic Dharma Practitioners (of all stripes!); these people see the world through the eyes of someone who ignores our impending Environmental Meltdown; who (will - if they can) actively personaly contribute a dozen more hungry mouths to the overstretched world; who looks forward to the meltdown - who thinks they're actually going to "Go To Heaven" after "It finally COMES!"; the ones who have assured me that I shouldn't want to go to College (it's getting late in life, that's the only real reason) a PhD., for "All the knowledge I could ever want, is right there in their Bible!"; the ones who, when they've 'sinned' - and, so they tell you (one moment), you very own sins whenever you sinned too - say to you, "It's O.K., Brother-Man! Jesus DIED for your sins; and through His Death - you've been forgiven!" but then (the next minute), when - after you've rejected them in some way; when you've failed to be 'jingoistic enough'; or, when you've failed to be Dogmatic enough in the practice of your Dogmas - you'll be equally assured that Jesus is going to punnish you/us for the very same sins that we were just told that Jesus had Died to abolish all sin from the world through the Mortal Sacrifice of Gods only Son.
I suspect that the secret to this quandry lies in one of the Catholic Churchs 'Mysteries'!
And I'm not even talkin' about how they confuse everyone (mostly themselves) with their inability to explain simple things like: "If we're all 'Gods Children', then am I not a 'Son of God'?" How could Jesus be "God's only son"? Maybe it's to get you to KILL for Him; In HIS Name?!? I suggest - then I hit them with the 'Resurection (...was a lesson in)=Reincarnation (...from Jesus)' speach, and they try to put me in a Mental Institution!:{;o:
More to come on this one!
