The Christ Conundrum.

There's this one...lol

 

She could be a reason Jesus is doing so badly in the polls though... Die hard Christians would leave their church because of that woman.

 

The Jews had the Christians make the story of Moses touch with a mighty voice a third of the world .
Must qualify as a miracle . But , Ol' Moses , he never did cross o'r Jordan into the promised land .

If someday the world becomes peaceful , then name the Light .

 

The trump religion is a known 73 million.

 

But God IS Jesus and Jehova and Allah and Vishnu and Shiva and Lucifer...

They are all the same God, and IT is pure DEMON.

And IT never created shit, but war and deception and contrived misery.

 

The older I get the sillier this all gets

Just spend the afternoon in the park on a nice warm day watch the birdies and the sunset in wonderment

As if humans know shit about how it all started anyway

 

Todays people want to worship themselves and their posessions.

Now, we are our own god.

 

The ghouls drool on a string
slime slides down
nourishing

 

christ was a human, who died, a long time ago. but also a legend. and legends outlive humans, with or without publicity agents.
god was and is, by deductive reasoning, and looking at all we supposedly know, which is almost nothing, and what people have told each other to imagine,
a self aware, powerful, non-physical and equally non-imaginary, being, who chose the man christ, along with many others throughout human history,
on average one every thousand years, give or take a few hundred, to be channeled by. baha-u-llah, a title that means glory of god, preferred the term "manifestation",
which reduces to approximately the same meaning.

i don't claim to represent either or any of them. but i see no "conundrem",
save that created by humans trying to tell each other what to pretend.

 

I also see no conundrum . And I hallucinate well enough .

 

So let me understand this. Christianity is the world's largest religion (also the most widespread), and your gripe is it doesn't have a larger "market share"? If that's so, whaddabout the other religions? Islam is #2, but less than one-quarter of the world's population. The irreligious are the third largest category, 16%, although they would hasten to tell us they're not a religion. Hindus, only 14%. And Buddhists? A mere 6%. Why would anybody take them seriously? Must not have much to offer if they can't muster even one-tenth of the world's population--unless size doesn't matter. The real puzzler is "God's chosen people", the Jews, who account for 2/10 of 1% of people in the world today--although they certainly make an impact way disproportionate to their numbers.

I don't know what inspired this exercise in "size matters", but my guess is God is more concerned with quality than quantity. After all, doesn't Revelation tell us only 144,000 of us are going to make it to Heaven? Any good Calvinist knows God is really picky about whom he lets through those Pearly Gates. (I say this tongue in cheek, since I think Heaven is a state of mind and Hell is a bad attitude).

Some atheists seem to be fundamentalists at heart, but us Progressive Christians don't believe God is the Dude in the Sky, let alone the "Omniscient Lord of the Universe" (See Hartshone, Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes.) We think the relative shares of the world religions is a function of historical factors, like conquest and commerce. Muslim tradition tells us that Allah sent 124, 000 prophets and 313 messengers to the nations of the world (Sahih Hadith), which is metaphorical for a shitload of prophets and messengers. I think all of the world religions contain aspects of divine truth, and I've found my own Christian faith to be strengthened by studying all of them (including atheism, which isn't a religion but is defined in relation to God.) Max Müller famously put it;"he who knows only one religion knows none."

Christianity got a big shot in the arm when Constantine embraced it and made the Prince of Peace into General Jesus. For many, Christianity is, in the words of Julian the Apostate, a "pernicious superstition", and unfortunately many of the most outspoken of self-proclaimed Christians are essentially Latter Day Pharisees. But some of us see it primarily as a religion of peace, unconditional love ,and social justice for humanity, especially for society's rejects and least advantaged. Good enough for me, no matter how many others believe it.

 

Forget the justice , keep the peace . Abolish punishment .

 

Peace and social (distributive) justice are joined at the hip. Punishment is the province of corrective justice.

 

It's religion... It's not supposed to make sense.

 

I hope you make progress , progressive one .

I may reflect on the time I worked for a Peace and Justice Center . I made some progress in my thinking with this experience . They still thank me for the community drum I made for them . The thing is only peaceful . And it alone is at the center .

I would not come to Tishomingo expecting justice to be sensible .

 

As it is written "For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. "