I read it multiple times. The New Testament and parts of the Old are full of wisdom still relevant today. The core theme of the New is to think for yourself.
I started thinking: “Why in the everliving fuck would an intelligent being create such a diverse species then expect them to all to enlighten themselves the exact same way?”
It wouldn’t. And, that’s why I’m not a Christian.
The best Christians I’ve ever met are exactly where Jesus would have them: serving the most sick in the Catholic Church.
I’d been in churches and been a Christian myself for years and years and then I met an actual Christian. He was leading a team running an orphanage in east Europe. He’d sold his house so that he could start and fund the place and rescue kids from the sewers, prostitution and heroine. The kids there were happy and healthy and played around him like he was some father abraham. He and his team would go out at night to rescue the kids from living in the drains. He told us about an 11 year old boy who he had warned repeatedly (the kids were legally free to leave) and who they had found just a few nights ago dead in a sewer from a drug overdose. He wept bitterly at all the things he thought he could have done better.
I read it multiple times. The New Testament and parts of the Old are full of wisdom still relevant today. The core theme of the New is to think for yourself.
I started thinking: “Why in the everliving fuck would an intelligent being create such a diverse species then expect them to all to enlighten themselves the exact same way?”
It wouldn’t. And, that’s why I’m not a Christian.
The best Christians I’ve ever met are exactly where Jesus would have them: serving the most sick in the Catholic Church.
I’d been in churches and been a Christian myself for years and years and then I met an actual Christian. He was leading a team running an orphanage in east Europe. He’d sold his house so that he could start and fund the place and rescue kids from the sewers, prostitution and heroine. The kids there were happy and healthy and played around him like he was some father abraham. He and his team would go out at night to rescue the kids from living in the drains. He told us about an 11 year old boy who he had warned repeatedly (the kids were legally free to leave) and who they had found just a few nights ago dead in a sewer from a drug overdose. He wept bitterly at all the things he thought he could have done better.