Go forth and be fruitful because like any business organized religion wants an ongoing customer base and you can't have that unless you have converts as well as those that are born into it and carry on.
Most of the people I have seen who want us to turn to God mean a very specific, as in their, God. It's about conformity and falling into the party line.
I love this. It fits with so many things I have been seeing and feeling lately. I am so tired of the divisive rhetoric. You must hate cops if you think that black lives matter. I can care about all lives to senseless violence and acknowledge that there are good and evil people in every group. The important thing is to not glorify the evil and give it power or let it win.
Exactly. When that rule was made, they were a small minority group surrounded by people of a different faith and ethnicity, one that did its best to keep outsiders at arms length so that they wouldn't be absorbed into the local population. Plus, more people means more power!
This is what drives me nuts - that when people say "we need to turn to God" it's always their God, their particular interpretation of God. And they use that to try to prove that their faith is better than the other person's or their way is the One True Way (TM). Any being powerful and knowledgeable enough to create all of nature, in all its infinite variety, is far too vast for our tiny minds to comprehend.
Division benefits those who try to divide us. Those who fear are easy to control. Fear breeds hate, hate breeds violence, and all of us are endangered because those who lash out in fear and hate don't really discriminate once the shooting starts - they just keep firing until they run out of shots or someone takes them out.
Power is always the goal. That is what most of the issues we are dealing with now are about. Who gets to be in control and the balance of power is shifting away from rich, white middle aged, "God fearing", men. They're scared and this is the backlash. I just hope that the country survives it to move on.
Looking at history, I'm hopeful about survival - look at the Civil Rights movement from the 1950s and 1960s, and you'll see riots in the streets, civil disobedience, lynchings, homegrown terrorists attacking wherever will get them headlines... we survived that, we'll survive this. It will be rough, but we are descendants of immigrants, and by their nature, immigrants are tough. We're softer than our ancestors, but we can fix that pretty quick if we need to.
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Most of the people I have seen who want us to turn to God mean a very specific, as in their, God. It's about conformity and falling into the party line.
I love this. It fits with so many things I have been seeing and feeling lately. I am so tired of the divisive rhetoric. You must hate cops if you think that black lives matter. I can care about all lives to senseless violence and acknowledge that there are good and evil people in every group. The important thing is to not glorify the evil and give it power or let it win.
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This is what drives me nuts - that when people say "we need to turn to God" it's always their God, their particular interpretation of God. And they use that to try to prove that their faith is better than the other person's or their way is the One True Way (TM). Any being powerful and knowledgeable enough to create all of nature, in all its infinite variety, is far too vast for our tiny minds to comprehend.
Division benefits those who try to divide us. Those who fear are easy to control. Fear breeds hate, hate breeds violence, and all of us are endangered because those who lash out in fear and hate don't really discriminate once the shooting starts - they just keep firing until they run out of shots or someone takes them out.
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