I hope this thread doesn't get locked because I love talking about this stuff!
What amuses me the most is when religions try to explain or ignore the enormity of time.
Formation of the Earth at around 4.5 BILLION years ago.
Humanity crawls out of the "muck" and starts to become civilized around 5K years ago and (at best) Judaism begins.
That's 4,499,995,000 years of ................. what?
Waiting for Jesus?
And that's just the Earth!
Tack on another 30 or 40 BILLION years for the universe.
My *mind* can't help but compare today's active religions with tales of Zeus or Ra.
Childrens stories to appease the simple and the afraid.
But in my *heart* I want Jesus to be real.
Because I'm human and I'm simple and afraid.
So there's an interesting blend of ideas in my head.
The teachings of Jesus is sound.
Love one another, turn the other cheek but sometimes kick some ass when people are doing wrong.
Though raised Catholic, I reject it utterly as an anathema to what I believe Jesus intended his church to be.
And I also really love porn.
Especially blond cheerleader porn.
(come on, it was getting a little too heavy for me)