Dear Paul,

«In a cohesively mutual society you do»

Thank God we are not in China!

«take advantage of the collective»

Acquiring a human body is so rare, we got where we are now perhaps after trillions upon trillions of births and untold sufferings, which probably included several lifetimes as ants or bees and the like, but we are over it now. Being here as humans with the free will that goes with it, each soul is in a different situation in its evolution and requires a different path with different conscious efforts to purify itself and complete this last part of its journey - how crazy would it be to waste this precious life on running a collective?!

«The idea that everyone can run their own race»

As humans, having gained this rare opportunity, everyone MUST run their own last segment of the race to God.

I wonder where that came from.
runner,
I read about the Crusades, ISIS, the Holocaust, choir boys, religious schools etc etc.
That's where it came from ! Oh and, yes millions of children starving because the religious zealots won't agree to birth control. If I remember correctly you're one of them !

'I read about the Crusades, ISIS, the Holocaust, choir boys, religious schools etc etc.'

ok then whats your excuse?

runner,
Sorry, forgot to mention hypocrisy also ! There now, it's not looking like an excuse anymore ok ?

'runner,
Sorry, forgot to mention hypocrisy also ! There now, it's not looking like an excuse anymore ok ?'

certainly ignorance at best.

runner,
If there is a God, I don't think he'd want anything to do with the likes of you ! At least I couldn't blame him !