MAGA Christians

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23. We always said this is creating god in man's own image...

Of course, from time immemorial, that's what Man has done. Is there a God? Is there a Goddess? Is there some transcendent Universal Force that uses and binds all energy for its purposes? Age old questions... which you'll never know until after death. And, if it's all null, then there's nothing to know and no answers for you TO know any longer. I like to believe in the mystery of the Universe. It may not function in any way my mind can translate, but I hope to come back around this way again someday.

These people make up their religion out of whole cloth. No, that may not be right. They took what they'd been taught from their Bible, and turned it upside down on its head. Whatever the Book said to do, they did (and do) the opposite. There may be a last paralyzing gasp of this religion before it sinks back into the background with all the rest, but sink it will. I think some individual churches may come together to form a stronger religion based on the teachings of the New Testament, plus some other "New Age" beliefs, but even then, that's fashioning your own path. Which, to me is NOT an indictment or a slur... I think one's religious beliefs are up to them... even if that means they have none. Just don't mess with anybody else's.

Having lost my Mom Friday and dealing with funeral arrangements in the midst of a snowstorm, these types of questions have been on my mind a lot over the last couple of days. Especially now as I age and my mortality is staring me square in the face.