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>That Christians worship an unreasonable, malicious or mad, god with unreasonable standards.

See now after a few rounds we see your real thoughts come out. I'm old enough to have had this thought and many more about God/Religion and why humans need it in their lives.

I don't have the time to go into it but perhaps as you get older and dig into this more it will start to make sense.




> See now after a few rounds we see your real thoughts come out.

It took you this long? I wasn't hiding anything.

> I'm old enough to have had this thought and many more about God/Religion and why humans need it in their lives.

> I don't have the time to go into it but perhaps as you get older and dig into this more it will start to make sense.

I was born and raised Catholic, then I found Wicca and realised that not all the gods and religions work like Christianity.

Then, sometime around 10-20 years ago but gradually rather than as a single event, I realised I could get stuff out of stories without believing them.

The ancient Greeks got on well with their very flawed pantheon. Those old tales put me very much in mind of the modern comic-book heroes (and anti-heroes), which I suspect is mainly due to where comic books get their inspiration from rather than the other way around. But I can be inspired by Miles Morales' struggles without needing to think he's real.


> rather than the other way around

Well, that was badly phrased!

More like: the alternative is both coming from a common source, not modern comic books inspiring the ancient Greeks.




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