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Life has been very good for me. Well beyond what I would venture to think I deserve. Good wife of over 30 years. Good family including a daughter and son we're proud to call our own. Good extended family. Just had my sister and brother-in-law stay with us over the weekend. Enjoyed their company as usual. Good friends. "Living the dream" as some like to say and happily so. All without religion for quite a long time now. I've been an atheist since I was a teenager. That's when I started to shed the "yoke" of religion in my life personally. I was raised a Catholic. I was a believer and that all worked for me while growing up just fine too, but not for long and not for the latter part of my life.
Knock on wood I can continue to enjoy life as I do until the end of my days, but knowing how life can be along those lines, I'm never assuming my good fortune can't change "on a dime" at any time. So I try to live each day to the fullest while I can, and hope I can deal with later life as gracefully as possible. I've been through difficult times before, and I know how difficult times can cause people to rely on religion for comfort. Or spirituality. I've not done so, and I doubt I will later on, but one never knows when it comes to what pain and suffering can bring.
Meanwhile, I'm a happy and grateful atheist. Not much more to tell than this I don't think. You tell me...
"People should recognize that at Christianity's core lies the primitive, tribal belief that sacrificing a valuable person will appease the angry god(s). Such beliefs date back to the dawn of man some hundreds of thousands of years ago.''
Even Israeli archeologists are acknowledging that Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses et.al. are just legends; they never existed.
"Scholars and historians erudite in this field generally view the stories of the patriarchal period with the central figures of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob at their kernel as little more than pious fictions, more likely than not being derived from ancient folk memories and legends.'
So if Abraham is mythical, then the Abrahamic covenant is mythical and if there is no covenant between God and the Jews then there is no foundation for the idea of Jesus coming into the world to die for the sins of Israel and by extension the gentiles is a fabrication concocted by clever churchmen. It's a mystery to me how Christians do not see through this whole ruse.
"People should recognize that at Christianity's core lies the primitive, tribal belief that sacrificing a valuable person will appease the angry god(s). Such beliefs date back to the dawn of man some hundreds of thousands of years ago.''
Even Israeli archeologists are acknowledging that Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Joseph and Moses et.al. are just legends; they never existed.
"Scholars and historians erudite in this field generally view the stories of the patriarchal period with the central figures of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob at their kernel as little more than pious fictions, more likely than not being derived from ancient folk memories and legends.'
So if Abraham is mythical, then the Abrahamic covenant is mythical and if there is no covenant between God and the Jews then there is no foundation for the idea of Jesus coming into the world to die for the sins of Israel and by extension the gentiles is a fabrication concocted by clever churchmen. It's a mystery to me how Christians do not see through this whole ruse.
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