Georgia Parents Torture Adopted Daughter, Say They Were Just Following The Bible

[Tumbulu]

77. No I do not, I am new to this group and so far

I feel as though there is a bit too much hostility for me.

And, what has evidence got to do with anything- isn't a this a religious group, not a science group?

Since you asked imo religion is how we humans try to make sense of a world that is full of things that do not make sense to us. The written codes of the religions give us a good glimpse into life in times long ago.

I see us as evolving beings and so the older texts give us an idea of how people understood things at the time.

I was raised Catholic and there were many very nice people who helped me grow up and gave me a personal framework that informed me that it was better to do things for other people than to do them for myself. I learned that to be greedy was wrong. That if I was given gifts of intelligence and the ability to work hard, then I needed to use those gifts to help everyone who was not given those gifts. And that they needed to share their gifts as well. That community mattered. All that sort of stuff. To grow my heart large enough so that I could forgive others failings and try to help them instead of judging them. I am grateful that I grew up with these messages.

I do not practice any religion these days, but I do think messages of love over greed are good. And I do think that humans need company and I also think that prior to the modern governments religions had a historical function of organizing societies.

I get tired of seeing religions bashed for human failings. We make the religions up, they reflect us. We need to keep evolving and getting better. What I have picked up so far in my reading of the Jefferson Bible is that he very much appreciated the messages of love that Christ brought forth. A pretty big advance for us in the western world.