@Xenu wrote:
But every religion can count on these things, every religion can show you that it has a thousand-year tradition, some preceding Christianity.
For me in the end, except for very few cases, people believe in the religion "in which they were born".
If you and Serafino had been born in Japan you would now be convinced Shintoists .
I remember an episode of the Simpsons cartoons, of which I was a fan, an episode in which the Simpsons family is about to go to Holy Mass, held by the excellent ...
...Reverend Lovejoy and, as usual, Homer was late. They park their car, and hurry to the church, where the service is about to begin. At a certain point we see the church, from the inside, with all those present silent, and the window, against the Sun, in which we can glimpse the shadows of the family members running, and while about to enter, Homer asks the wife:
- Can you imagine Margie, if we had the wrong religion? Every Sunday morning, we would only make God more and more furious...
Beyond the joke, which is anything but trivial, yes, the doubt, and the question is legitimate. And my atheist friends and enemies, with whom I have argued and argued all these years, always told me: you, Holubice, are just as atheist as us; there are at least 8,000 deities in the history of humanity. You don't believe in at least 7,999 of them. The only difference between you, and us, is that we don't believe in one more than you. Except here, the answer lies entirely in this sentence:
- My sheep will listen to my voice
That is, the right man (or woman), when they hear these things, will understand who, and what, produced them. Having tasted the water, including the source, the good Confucius would have said. And, above all, here things will only be understood by those who deserve to understand them. Because all those who, for various reasons, he doesn't want among his balls, he will make sure they don't understand them until the end. Here is the meaning of the words: "You will look, but you will see nothing. Even though you listen, you will hear nothing. For I have made your eyes blind and your ears deaf." Go and look for this passage yourself. Or rather, right at the last minute, they will get there too.
But when it's too late...
1) From my Sacred Reference Text:
SPOILER:
The good shepherd
[1] «Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever does not enter the sheep pen by the door, but climbs up from another side, is a thief and a robber. [2]But whoever enters through the door is the shepherd of the sheep. [3] The keeper opens the door to him, and the sheep listen to his voice: he calls his sheep one by one and leads them out. [4] And when he has brought out all his sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. [5] But they will not follow a stranger, but will flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers." [6] This simile Jesus spoke to them; but they did not understand what he said to them.
[7] Then Jesus said to them again, “Truly, truly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. [8]All those who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them. [9] I am the door: if anyone enters through me, he will be saved; he will go in and out and find pasture. [10]The thief does not come except to steal, kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it abundantly. [11]I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd offers his life for the sheep. [12]But the mercenary, who is not a shepherd and to whom the sheep do not belong, sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep and runs away, and the wolf kidnaps them and scatters them; [13]he is a mercenary and does not care about the sheep. [14]I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me , [15] as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I offer my life for the sheep. [16]And I have other sheep which are not of this fold; these too I must lead; they will listen to my voice and become one flock and one shepherd. [17]For this reason the Father loves me: because I lay down my life, to then take it back again. [18] No one takes it away from me, but I offer it of myself, for I have the power to offer it and the power to take it again. This command I received from my Father."
[19]Again dissension arose among the Jews because of these words. [20] Many of them said: «He has a demon and is out of his mind; why are you listening to him?". [21]But others said, “These words are not those of a demoniac; can a demon open the eyes of the blind?".
The whole discussion started from here, or from the excellent #Northerner, who had found a solution to overcome sexual abstinence during his wife's menstrual cycle
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