Not to worry Liz. I have taken substantial measures to safeguard against any error or misdeed happening on my watch. Firstly, I did what any average human being would do. I researched to see if the subject in question was fiction or nonfiction. I studied the character against both factual characters & mythological characters, and I discovered him to have an alarming number of similarities with the mythological ones. Jesus flew without wings, rose from the dead, raised others from the dead, strode about performing magical tricks and many other traits & actions shared by fictional mythological storybook characters. So I decided to, as I'm sure you did yourself, find any proof that this character really existed because after all, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Not only did I find no such proof exists, but those I spoke with who assured me he does, admit to believing based on no evidence whatsoever! Basing the bulk of their reasons on faith! -A hopeful, extremely overly confident promise to oneself that what you believe is true and it's true because you believe. A completely circular argument which obviously amounts to nothing.
So, not leaping to conclusions and throwing the baby out with the bathwater, I researched further to find out whether or not this pretend belief in an unproved character had any negative side effects (as I'm sure you did yourself before concluding for yourself). Of course, I found that believing things to be true based on faith was not only harmful to the individual, but to all of society as a whole as well. Liz, did you know that the crazies who crashed planes into the Twin Towers used this same "faith" to assure themselves their beliefs were good & true? I'm sure you did.
I also learned that belief in these gods separates people into nonnegotiable opposable groups. Each of them believing they have a different god's commands on how to live, and those who believe differently are not only wrong, but enemies! Quite often enemies to be fought, even damned for all eternity in the afterlife.
Of course we all know the words of anyone claiming to know what's going on in the afterlife should be taken with a tremendous grain of salt, and any claims they might make about who we're all supposed to bow down to and show godly respect need to be scrutinized to the highest degree.
I'm sure you've done all of this before emailing me, so clearly you understand where I'm coming from, and can rest assured that an exhaustive amount of safeguards were conducted in order to prevent any sort of inappropriateness from taking place.
But thank you for double checking. We need more of that!
Bob |
