To: BMCDA
He wants to forgive us but he cannot do so before he hasn't vented his anger somehow. When I was a kid, people poked fun at the Greek and Pagan Gods for having such human foibles as emotions.
1,084 posted on
02/21/2006 11:22:39 AM PST by
js1138
(Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.)
To: js1138
The Greeks and Romans did not trust their gods farther than they could throw them. Religious ceremonies, such as they were, were for the explicit purpose of appeasing said deities to keep them from swatting you and yours out of existence.
In many ways the early concepts of the Jewish God are similar: He had to be sacrificed to in order to placate Him; He got angry at the drop of a yamulke; and He liked smiting a lot.
1,089 posted on
02/21/2006 11:30:00 AM PST by
Junior
(Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
To: js1138
When I was a kid, people poked fun at the Greek and Pagan Gods for having such human foibles as emotions. I guess that's why I loved all those stories as a kid. I literally swallowed them.
1,100 posted on
02/21/2006 11:42:40 AM PST by
BMCDA
(If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it,we would be so simple that we couldn't)
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