It kinda makes you wonder who he's trying to bullshit the most: his audience, his God or himself.
His questions make sense to me, Religion is a part of culture, it binds people together and gives them an indentity.
As each culture is different in makeup by geography there are different NEEDS of different cultures. Different rites that bring comfort and peace to different areas of the world.
Those Christians living in the west were a rebellious group, Terrible things were done in the name of the LORD, and when Martin Luther had it up to his eyeballs with the corruption and MEN interpreting Gods word were just money hungry humans that were putting a Scam on the people, he finally went bonkers and nailed his complaints to the Church House door.
Really astounding that after 2,000 years we still are being scammed out of money, property and our faith by people who if I believed in reincarnation would think were reborn from the 600'Th century.
Sad when the Catholic church went broke with the sex scandals and neighborhood churches that many had attended for a couple generations were closed. Heart breaking really for those who lost their family's identity for 100 years now had to start all over again.
I see or have seen these small Churches in the south where the building is an abandoned garage with perhaps 20- full time members. There is no money to pay a pastor so each sunday one of the congregation will do a sermon or lead them in a joyfull noise to the Lord.
This is faith at its best. To understand Christianity and it's roots, one must find the churches of not the wealthy, the pastor arriving in a limo, and blasting the congregation with guilt that they need to spend more money to keep up his life style.
Be one Christian, Muslim or of other faith, be aware when the leader of that faith has a bigger home, a better car, tells you they are the gate way to the after life.
Christians see Jesus as a working man, a crafts man working with wood, skilled in boat building and hard working. He was I am sure not as poor as others made him out to be but he did not become wealthy on those he was of service to.
Those of Muslim, with opulent digs, 4 wives and 6 young male "servants" how can one trust them to understand the human needs of the poor?
Televangelists are the boil on the butt of God, check out the number of them that have been exposed as frauds and how they manage a come back to loot more money from those they convince they are worthy to preach the word of GOD.
One does not have to attend or sponsor a faith to be a believer, God or Allah gives a crap about the man made buildings made in their honor, God cares not for our financial sacrifices to HIM, what good does it do to God but to look down on the starving that that money could have fed his people.
People can have a deep faith in God that does not include any rites but to sit on a mountain at sunrise and thank God for another day of life and marval at the beauty God placed us in.
