Day 16

Allow me to ask a question of my friend, is there really any difference between one who cuts off the head of another human being in the name of their God and one who condemns the supposed unwashed to an eternity of torment in an unsafe space and at the direction of a vengeful God?  I fail to understand the difference.

Both tragedies result from fundamentalist thinking that is espoused by some Muslims and some Christians.  Radical believers in the faith of Mohammed cut off heads while fundamentalist Christians insist on the hell scenario for the supposed unworthy while each believer takes pride in their own somehow acceptable performance.  

Critics of the hell doctrine ask the obvious question, how can a God of love engineer such a place?  The excuse offered by religion, that the unworthy somehow send themselves to hell is bunk.  Anyone who has been around religious circles understands that there is no religion or no human being that adequately represents divine purity of performance or motives.

G. Goslaw

Lander, CA