Quote from flytiger:
Now who judged anybody? I didn't judge Christians. More that likely , Ashley is one, by the common definition of the term, which basically means someone that was brought up in Christianity.
Lemme ask a question that you can't answer with 'because'. When I was fumbling around, I asked a friend what he thought. He said, " if He was the Son of God, you think he knew about bacteria". Don't you think he would have said, 'you need to segregate human waste from your food supply'. Or 'if you boil that instrument before you lance that wound..........'.. How about, 'Hey, Paul, before you cup your hands in that brooke to take a drink, see Peter peeing upstream? Why don't we go on the other side of him?'
Now, if you're a thinking human being, you 'd say, 'good point'. I did. If you want to stick your index fingers in your ears and scream, have at that, too. But it 's a great point. They would have had wind turbines, radios, refrigerators........ Hey, guns. The Jews would have had guns. The Romans would have been toast.
Oh, and something I thought of when i was like, ten. The Catholics told us we were right, and everybody else was wrong, and couldn't attain the Kingdom of Heaven. And I was thinking about some Peyote Indian who led his tribe, was faithful, honorable - lived his life to the best of his ability, but couldn't attain the Kingdom of Heaven because he couldn't get to Mass on Sunday, and I remember thinking, at Ten, 'this is bullshit'. And it still is.
There is a happy medium. Madame Tarlot. She's a Medium, and she's happy. But there is either nothingness, after all, you think it's that way for the family pet you love so dearly, or something only you and your friends are in on. I say, nothing, or some alternative that says, 'nice job, it's tough down there. Sit on the couch, I'll get you a beer."