Jumpin said:
Slimebeast said:
Jumpin said:
The thing is, the technology and resources required to colonize other planets is probably a lot greater than what would be required to fix our own problems here and ensure our survival.
Besides, if we go into space, there WILL be Romulans!
PS. Nowhere in the bible does it say people go to heaven when they die, that is an alien myth to Christianity that has become one of its core features, like Christmas, Sunday worship, Easter, and other things. The reason why people think that we should explore space probably stems from this myth that is coded into our culture. I'm agnostic though, I don't buy it.
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I hope you are kidding.
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It's all true. Find a passage where Jesus says "If you are good you go to heaven, if you are bad you go to hell." For a belief so core to contemporary Christianity, you would think that somewhere in the books it would be explicitly stated. This is just something added in to give easily fooled people incentive to listen to the Church.
For the rest, Find a passage in the bible where it says Jesus was born on the winter solstice, died on the Spring Equinox, and a passage where he says he moves the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. None of that exists in the bible. They were all Western traditions.
* Sunday was a Roman weekly holiday to celebrate the Imperial Cult (Mithras Sol Invictus).
* Christmas took over the Solstice festivals (it was the same day as the birthday of Mithras Sol Invictus, the bible says Jesus was born in the Spring. Christmas trees, Santa, Christmas ham, and other traditions are Germanic (For Odin and Freyr)
* Easter tradition was the pagan tradition of the equinox, when the light conquered darkness (when the days finally become longer than the nights). Easter is named after the Goddess Ostara, which is where we get the bunnies and the eggs.
True Christianity?
Read the bible, you'll see the main messages are: don't judge, and to throw off the belief systems you hold so true, because they are holding you back from the greater truth. Jesus is the personification of the Philosophical ideal of the Logos (According to some of the books). He was never meant to be a real person, not until Constantine canonized a few of the books, and burned the rest, and those who did not follow his Nicene system; did that belief become prevalent; it was also in a far more superstitious world. The authors of the bible were wise descendants of thought of the Greek philosophers; such as Aristotle and Philo (a Hellenized Jew). Only, most contemporary Christianity ignores this. Most Christians don't even know who Sophia is (The personification of Wisdom, the mother of God); Hagia Sophia was one of the largest buildings of Christian worship ever built (in Constantinople/Nova Roma, capital of the Christian Roman/Byzantine Empire for over a thousand years).
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