Dear Belly,

It is both sad and hard to believe - that the Spanish Inquisition, already gone (for most purposes) for 500 years or so, still has such power over you to deprive you of spiritual health, of the only source of lasting happiness and peace, indeed the source of sanity itself.

Same for all those paedophile priests, Catholic or otherwise, Irish or otherwise: idiots they are, that's for sure, but why do you, Belly, need to suffer alongside for their crimes?!

Know that these sinful people never owned God.
They never even knew God.
Why then would you hold them as any spiritual authority?

The good news is, that in order to love God and receive His grace, there is no need to believe that He exists. Beliefs are only cerebral, intellectual ideas and God does not ask you to entertain this or that intellectual idea - the church might expect you so, but not God! Just fill your heart with love and the spirit of service, for God and for your fellow creatures and may God grant you everlasting joy and peace.

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Dear Individual,

How popular is a movie without a villain, where nothing bad really happens?

It is you who chose this movie and it is you who can, if you want, quit it at any moment: turn on the light and you will laugh your belly off over the fact that "and I was counting myself as one of those miserable human figures on that screen, ha ha ha, as if it was really me who was suffering like those dummies, how ridiculous could I be while I was actually sitting on this chair all along for eternity watching this screen..."

Wake up! This world is only a dream, only a nightmare. You, the dreamer, are not anywhere in it, never were - it is your own creation alone!

Yuyutsu,
Well, great beating around the bush wish with nothing actually said. So, why do you think does God tolerate stupid & nasty people ?

Yuyutsu! hang on you are smarter than that
HISTORY should never be ignored and YOU know Muslims [some] still hate over middle ages invasions of their country
My brain led me away from God fables
My hope for a united world, even if we must, yet again, invent a God
Make it one who promises reincarnation, BUT warns us, if we do any harm to any other race we will be reborn in that race ten times before moving to another
Use the God myth to unite humanity

Belly,
brilliantly said !

Thanks indy hope Yuyutsu answers his views are always interesting

Belly,

On thursday, you wrote:

"But surely we could lift the standard of living for billions if we controlled population"

'WE' ? We have some right to intrude into other countries' affairs ? To 'control' their populations ? Really ? Can you see the fascist side of that 'virtuous goal' ?

And how to 'control' population ? Sterilise women ? Butcher children ? 'Subtract' the elderly ?

And of course, 'we' could only do that once 'we' have invaded and imposed our superiority on those benighted countries. Or perhaps it could be done by some world government, in your dystopian view ?

So how different would that be from fascism ? Not to mention racism ? And where are we talking about ? Bangla Desh ? India ? Africa ?

Joe