On Nov 8, 9:23 am, Bill C <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Nov 8, 11:08 am, Fred Fredburger
>
> Gee, ya mean life isn't simple for rational beings?
> Let's be honest here, every religious text is a mish-mash of what the
> current crop of leaders/politicians needed them to say at any given
> point early on, then once the books were mostly finalized they started
> on what it means to be "insert your favorite religion here", and
> whacking each other over power and control.
> Saqmae as secular politicians/leaders. Thunk the fault might be in
> the humans?
> That's why I laugh at Kyle's "Lets all love each other, hold hands,
> and sing Kumbaya." Great philosphy, wonderful goal, not really
> workable at any forseeable point in the near future given the nature
> of humans.
Jeez, and all these years I thought Kyle was a goth.
Jesus (the historical one, now) was a revolutionary.
Sometimes revolutionaries are radical redistributionists
in the name of justice; sometimes they're intolerant
maniacs, end-justifies-the-meaners, or murderers.
Sometimes they're all of these things at the same
time. However, they aren't generally people that
the fat cats ought to feel comfortable with, which is
why I made the original "longhaired liberal" joke.
(Of course I don't think what's-his-name was a liberal -
liberals aren't revolutionaries. But he wasn't a
Christian TV Network CEO either.)
There is currently a tendency among people who ought
to know better to replace Kumbaya Jesus with
3-Star General Jesus. This is also a mistake.
Ben
In a counterinsurgency, God is not
necessarily on the side of the big battalions.
