Sep 15th, 2003, 01:21 PM
Vince, you, being as intelligent as you claim to be, should know that even a few millennia before Christ, after agriculture was invented, and when life wasn't as hard when cavemen roamed the earth (oh, and you WOULD be fucking surprised if you were a caveman and the sky set a tree on fire, resulting in a very rudimentary religion etc. it's not that hard to imagine really) and people were more intelligent, things of nature STILL surprised people, and making them want answers, which they invented when someone finally said "Oy! I think this all happens 'cause some guy on a throne up there makes it happen!" after which they told members of other tribes which they met, and who thought "Hey, that's actually a very reasonable explanation." and went and told his tribe members etc. and so forth resulting in an organised religion.
Also, what you are arguing is, is that people who worshop religions that are millennia older than Christianity and the Islam, and Judeaism are also going to hell for worshipping a religion that was there before Christianity and all those other religions, just because they refuse to believe in a ratther poorly put together big fat book about some guy in the air doing all kinds of stuff.
So, in effect, the ONLY religion that could possibly be true, would have to be the FIRST religion ever, because the people who invented it may have seen God him/her/itself or something to that effect. And NOT Christianity, simply because it's a lot older, and thusly more trustworthy.
Hell Vince, even in Roman times etc. in places where there weren't any organized religions, but still fairly intelligent people, were making up new religions and stuff because they needed something to explain all the bad and good things that happened to them. Because it's just difficult to believe that something is more your fault than someone else's.
Also, what baout tribes in Africa, who have NEVER, EVER even heard about Jesus Christ and Jehova and Allah and stuff. Do they go to hell just because noone ever introduced them to their religion?
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