Our Christian friends tell the church is not a church for saints but a hospital for sinners. There are some sins that should never be forgiven. When someone molests a child, he should carry that guilt all the days of his life. Religious cults take care of predators and ignore the victims. Religious Cults are not running a hospital for sinners they are car wash that washes away the predator's sins. There is a reason people feel guilt it is our sense of empathy telling us that we did something wrong. The religious cults steps in and shorts circuits the process by telling the predators their sins have been forgiven and they are saved. Well, if the supreme being can forgive me certainly he will forgive me again. No need to feel guilty. After all, all sins can be forgiven.
Of all the world's knowledge today less than 1% of that knowledge was available to those who lived in biblical times. What man has always done is fill in the blank with the supernatural what he didn't know he could imagine. The concept that Jesus died on the cross for our sins clearly smacks of human sacrifice. Man had been sacrificing his fellow man to atone for his sins for centuries.
The term empathy did not exist in Jesus's time nor did the fMRI. It would be centuries later before the mind was explored. Guilt however was understood by almost everybody and everybody had experienced it. The pleasure principal states we go toward pleasure and away from pain. It was natural that people would want to escape guilt. Christianity offered to forgive their sins and let them escape guilt.
What's wrong with that? Guilt is what keeps us between the guard rails. Our empathy is telling us what we are doing is wrong. We will avoid the pain of guilt by not repeating the offence. But what if a religious cult says they can forgive your sins instead? You need not feel guilty because you have been forgiven. You need not have to deal with the guilt of molesting a child because you are forgiven and can and will be forgiven for the next child you molest.
Trump is now saying that China will invest a trillion dollars in the United States. Didn't we just go through this with TikTok. I wonder if China would object to us spending a trillion dollars to locate the CIA branch in downtown Beijing. China is already sending robots over here with surveillance software in them. Imagine what damage an army of robots could do being controlled by a Chinese factory located in the United States. during the cold war the Russians put sleeper cells in United States they were in place for 30 or forty years. They appeared as normal families with a long history in the United States. They could then be activated to do what the Russian military wanted.
If Tick Toc was a security risk this is far more dangerous, we may already be hosting an invading army.
