Amos

Sue

The assumption that God exist already places us outside of the realm where God exists because the assumption must be made by our faculty of reason which is where God is not or God would be as simple as 1+1=2.

The religious texts are metaphors because God does not exist in our conscious mind. The words used to describe God are based on agreements of understanding (convention) and since God is not part of this convention we must use conventional words to describe this non-conventional idea of ourselves that we call God.

The reason why bible passages are such extreme images is to remove from the literal interpretation with the hope that we don't believe the extraordinary events until such time as we see the true meaning of the passages.

To write the bible in simple plain words that point directly to the aftermath of religion would make religion redundant in which case we would still be cave dwellers today.

NightWatchman

No, Rome is the city that made the earth drunk with the wine of her lewdness (science) and out of this delirium various brewmasters changed the recipe and they produce the fornicators that make hell known. It is true that Catholics cannot go to heaven as Catholic (or there would be Churches in the New Jerusalem), and this also means that Catholics cannot go to hell as Catholic. This justifies the anathema rule of the Church and thereby implies that if heaven is for Catholics only, hell is for protestants only.

Shake

From Monty Python's Holy Grail:I think it's safe to say that God does hate religion!

-RRH-

Ah, quoting from holy scriptures is better than evidence.

And also, "Nee!"

-RRH-

God only likes religions that I agree with.

And something that goes "quack" should not be called a duck.