21 Jun '14 13:01>
IF there was a god, it might think like this, where you insert what a real god might be like. So your religion goes, this god would NEVER be jealous. This god would NEVER be spiteful, this god would be above all that with just one overriding attribute, unconditional love.
You could reference to that kind of god, knowing full well there may not be such a creature but knowing all along you could aim your morality along the lines of what you think a real god would be like, and that would NOT include human attributes, the attributes now stuck to the bible god and the god of Islam and Judaism and all the rest.
We would say, a real god would NEVER say one sex is superior to the other, for instance so there would NEVER be verses in the new bible that would say men are worth 50 shekels but a woman 30.
There would NEVER be verses saying to kill in this god's name.
There would NEVER be verses saying you can kill your children if they are bad.
There would NEVER be verses saying you must die if you leave our religion.
There would NEVER be verses saying you are born into sin.
The verses in THIS bible would all be positive, aimed at lifting the spirits of mankind.
Why didn't THAT kind of religion start 3000 years ago?
You could reference to that kind of god, knowing full well there may not be such a creature but knowing all along you could aim your morality along the lines of what you think a real god would be like, and that would NOT include human attributes, the attributes now stuck to the bible god and the god of Islam and Judaism and all the rest.
We would say, a real god would NEVER say one sex is superior to the other, for instance so there would NEVER be verses in the new bible that would say men are worth 50 shekels but a woman 30.
There would NEVER be verses saying to kill in this god's name.
There would NEVER be verses saying you can kill your children if they are bad.
There would NEVER be verses saying you must die if you leave our religion.
There would NEVER be verses saying you are born into sin.
The verses in THIS bible would all be positive, aimed at lifting the spirits of mankind.
Why didn't THAT kind of religion start 3000 years ago?