#7 Hypocrisy and losing/misunderstanding/misrepresenting the spirit of what religion is about and what it's for, is what religion has become.
Example: Jesus Christ (whether a real person or a character created to further a set of moral and behavioural guidelines) spends his whole life promoting unconditional love and acceptance of his fellow man - even dying for his belief. What a wonderful thing.
What happens? the /man/ is worshipped rather than his work continued. The symbol, rather than the cause.
Union General, John Sedgwick, was shot and killed moments after standing from his trench and telling his men to stand because Confederate soldiers "couldn’t hit an elephant at this distance."
#7 Hypocrisy and losing/misunderstanding/misrepresenting the spirit of what religion is about and what it's for, is what religion has become.
Example: Jesus Christ (whether a real person or a character created to further a set of moral and behavioural guidelines) spends his whole life promoting unconditional love and acceptance of his fellow man - even dying for his belief. What a wonderful thing.
What happens? the /man/ is worshipped rather than his work continued. The symbol, rather than the cause.
Example: Jesus Christ (whether a real person or a character created to further a set of moral and behavioural guidelines) spends his whole life promoting unconditional love and acceptance of his fellow man - even dying for his belief. What a wonderful thing.
What happens? the /man/ is worshipped rather than his work continued. The symbol, rather than the cause.
Talk about missing the fucking point.