Alternative Goals

I used to get feeds from a web site that was always finding some new interesting piece of evidence to add to their life-wasting cause of disproving the Bible. Most of these "discoveries" were things I was already familiar with. It struck me that he and I were going out there to find new factual information - he to try to disprove the Bible and I to try to better understand God. I've seen many people who do the sort of thing he does and I can't help but wonder why. Why doesn't he order some pizza and get some beer and watch a nice movie? What is it in his undertaking that is constructive? Is this somehow fulfilling his life? I have no idea why someone would do this. Perhaps he is angry at organized religion. I think organized religion is an important thing. Jesus spent his time on earth trying to get the organized Jewish religion back in order. Of course, he failed because he is dealing with humans who have free will. I like the line in the song: He could have called 10,000 angels ... It seems to me that organized religion has the same problem as socialism and utopia in that people are running it. From the moment a religion has been set up with guidelines and leaders, it's downhill the rest of the way. So, I agree that organized religion is a problem, but the problem is us, not God. I wish that fellow and others like him all the happiness in the world but I don't think they are going to find it where they are looking.