> It all depends on whose standard you are comparing people too. > > How about a human standard. That's the only standard I have. And it's much easier to > live life by that. > > What would be easier for you? To go up to a random human being and say that they're > no good until they submit to Gawd, Jebus, or whatever Father Figure within your > teachings? Or to simply not do that? > > Frankly, it's patently absurd to me to attempt to defend someone who utters the > phrase "humans aren't good". And then going further stating that a "shepherd" is > needed to keep that "flock" in order. To Guide them to that Holy Place (an abattoir, > perhaps?) leaving no lost "sheep" behind? And, of course, that disgusting need to > bathe yersleves in blood that isn't really blood but y'all call it blood anyways so > it's blood. Then there's the consumption of His Flesh with a blood chaser. > > The language one uses reveals the dark corners of human nature. Some of us are hip to > that. Ya dig? What I find curious about all of this is that the believers are still > blind to the obvious as they use the same language I use! > > At what point does such awareness get shut off from within? > > --Bekki