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Nope – not illuminated by the reason behind tithing at all…

All that passage says to me is basically god is teh big badass, so you’ve got to do what he says or he will (figuratively speaking) come and burn your house down – course if you do what he says then good luck will come, and you will all look cool and lucky to other less blessed hairy heathen savage types…

So basically a fairly blatant and not very subtle protection racket type thing going on (sort of analogous to lurking gentlemen standing around your house and making comments like “very flammable looking building that”, and “could go up easily with one carelessly dropped match.. Know what I mean…” followed by “course you could get it fireproofed – we could do that for you… For a small regular remuneration”…)

And how the feck can you be robbing him? He owns everything already (including you), and can no doubt make more if needed (he did after all create everything there is in such short time he had a day to put his feet up… )

Sorry – still sounds like a ploy to line the priests pockets and pad their lifestyle to me – bet they were patting each other on the back when they came up with the “because you weren’t devout enough” argument to the inevitable crys of “we did all he asked – why are we still fooked?”…

With caver on the RELIGION is the root of all evil. Never believe someone who claims to have the whole universe worked out, because having that belief means they’ve got it wrong – and be specially sceptical when they’re insisting, and setting light to folk who argue/look at them in a funny way :wink:…

did you know that i am god ? did you know that you are god too? there is heaven and hell in all of us 🙂

this seems to suggest you love the religion…but dont follow it…am i right? if so, why?

i think faith is just a type of arrogance. When you talk to christians, they have this unfounded confidence that other religions, ones like paganism and scientology…the tooth fairy.. are somehow more ridiculous than their religion. To be perfectly honest i find some of the bullshit scientologists harp on about a lot more plausible than the trite in the bible… walking on water, coming back to life…come off it.

i hate how backward views are all tolerated as well, just because it has this ‘religion’ status. Regardless of how much faith you have in a mr. invisible man god, if you hold views against abortion, euthanasia, homosexuals and women, you are, for all intents and purposes, scum.

This isn’t actually from Wicca – it’s a bastardised quote from Crowley’s “Book of the law” (the original form was “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law” – the and it harm none was added much later). Most of that was drawn from the various beliefs centered around Judaism.

Yeah – a lot of Christian symbolism and Mythology was taken from the various religions they set out to convert – you find examples of it everywhere (near where I live there is a place called “St Brigits well” – very obviously taken from the Irish goddess Brigid (goddess of the hearth and home), and twisted to suit the needs of the Christian missionaries that were converting the populace)… And most of the religions of the peoples the Romans called “Celts” have similarities running through them – like the Norse Norns (the weavers of past, present and future) – that idea runs through pretty much all the Germanic, Irish, Brythonnic, as well as Greek (the fates) religious mythologies…

Personally, I like the buddhist view (we have a tune with a sample running through it that says “You are becoming gods”…) A much more interesting idea – you don’t have to worship a god – you’re becoming one… Thats’ why buddhists (the ones that understand it) don’t run round trying to convert people (because you can’t teach someone how to become enlightened – they have to do that themselves)…