Reply #32: All have the right to their beliefs. The problems arise when...... [View All]

[reprobate]

the problems arise when the believers on one particular cult portray the believers of another cult as evil. Hatred quickly arises, and violence is not far behind. Christianity, among other religions, has done this from it's inception. Who was it that said "More people have died in the name of god than for all other reasons"?

Historicly the Jesus story is only the last in a series of more than a dozen 'christ' myths, and all the rest had just as big a following in their day. This one, like all the rest, will fade one day and be replaced with a myth that more fits the life of the time it is formulated.

The wisest man that I have learned from, Joseph Campbell, put it quite well when he said that the mistake we make in the west is to mistake the spiritual myth for the concrete reality.

Peace and long life.