I concur.

when we get to 100 pages, Jesus will descend upon us.

I dig Christ and I would definitely say I'm an observer of His word, but I'm pretty strongly convinced at this point that organized religion in general is a joke with the kind of punchline that gives you a tumor trying to figure it out.

In other words, it's a bad joke.

Religion is smart business.

If Toshiro Mifune talks, you listen.

so returning to this website from quiet a break i have come to convince myself that there is a god. i really cant explain why though i think faith has just brought me to come upon to believe in him. he has helped me through many hard times. this may sound very stupid and corny but its the truth. without him in my life i would be lost

I always found it odd that people are open to credit God with fortunate incidents, but if someone unfortunate happens, uh, well, you know.

Did you ever figure out that Jesus started a Church.

Jesus never started a church. He was the inspiration for others to start churches in his name, but if anyone thinks that what we know today as Christianity or "the church" is a manifestation of jesus' vision & purpose, they're mistaken.

The other side of that point of view is that Jesus' vision and purpose was to start a Church. Jesus' message wasn't one of spiritual isolationism, but to unify people into the family of God. St Paul always taught that there is one baptism for the family of God, one Church of God.

The mistake is to believe that Jesus had no part in forming the Church of God on earth.