[Kizzy]

There are nice bits....

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

There are nice bits....

well you have to give it the gloss to get recruits and to sell it to the masses

[user104658]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

well you have to give it the gloss to get recruits and to sell it to the masses

Only because people were desensitised; fear worked pretty well early on. They had to add in the nice bits later to entice back those who had figured out that God doesn't actually smite people, make floods, or diseases or plagues of locusts etc. because he isn't real and stuff. "Stick has broken, commence operation Carrot!"

I reckon someone just figured out that humans, over time, become increasingly defiant but remain steadily greedy.

"OBEY or bad things!"
- "Oh no, help! I will obey!"

"Continue to obey, or bad things!"
- "Nah, bored, come at me bro."

"Err... if you obey you get infinite sweets in heaven, really awesome ones."
- "...they free?"

"Yeah infinite! Free sweeties! You have to OBEY for now though."
- "Free... free sweets, you say? OK I'm back in."

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Only because people were desensitised; fear worked pretty well early on. They had to add in the nice bits later to entice back those who had figured out that God doesn't actually smite people, make floods, or diseases or plagues of locusts etc. because he isn't real and stuff. "Stick has broken, commence operation Carrot!"

I reckon someone just figured out that humans, over time, become increasingly defiant but remain steadily greedy.

"OBEY or bad things!"
- "Oh no, help! I will obey!"

"Continue to obey, or bad things!"
- "Nah, bored, come at me bro."

"Err... if you obey you get infinite sweets in heaven, really awesome ones."
- "...they free?"

"Yeah infinite! Free sweeties! You have to OBEY for now though."
- "Free... free sweets, you say? OK I'm back in."

Yeah, I just can't real another of your comic replies to a serious subject, TS.

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Livia

Yeah, I just can't real another of your comic replies to a serious subject, TS.

All I can really say there, is what I already said above:

My personal belief is that everyone has the right to make light of anything and everything they would like to make light of. Do people have to like it? No.

The "seriousness" of the subject is, surely, as much a matter of opinion as anything else. You take religion seriously and therefore religion is a serious topic; I try my very hardest not to take it seriously and so it isn't necessarily. It *can* be, but it certainly doesn't have to be.

[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

All I can really say there, is what I already said above:

My personal belief is that everyone has the right to make light of anything and everything they would like to make light of. Do people have to like it? No.

The "seriousness" of the subject is, surely, as much a matter of opinion as anything else. You take religion seriously and therefore religion is a serious topic; I try my very hardest not to take it seriously and so it isn't necessarily. It *can* be, but it certainly doesn't have to be.

All I can really say it, and it's a repeat of my last post... there are four of you now all clapping and nodding at each other. Enjoy!

[Mokka]

Originally Posted by Livia

All I can really say it, and it's a repeat of my last post... there are four of you now all clapping and nodding at each other. Enjoy!

Woh woh woh... I never said I agree with LT about anything

[user104658]

Originally Posted by Livia

All I can really say it, and it's a repeat of my last post... there are four of you now all clapping and nodding at each other. Enjoy!

Nothing wrong with a good circlejerk Livia.

...hence Church. Where one might go to see someone literally preaching to the flock. Who would clap. And nod. No?