"came down the mountain"

If a omnicient Supreme Diety, no matter what you want to call it, wants to impose a strict set of rules, it, being all-knowing, ought to realize that someone has to go up that mountain and be reminded clearly and without ambiguity more often than every few thousand years! We poor mortals, who think we have free will, keep developing alternate opinions about the matter.

If authority in these matters is simply entrusted to generations of clergy who interpret to suit their own self-interest, is it any wonder that 'doubt' has ensued?

I draw one kind of conclusion from this situation, others see it differently. The **ONLY**
solution to disagreements of this sort is for everyone to act/worship/behave/believe etc., as they wish, in private and not try to impose specific moral and religious codes on the public at large.

What would that mean to those whose idea of proper behavior is to 'witness', 'preach' and 'spread the good news'? It would mean quite a problem, huh? Remember the cute line, "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose"?

boy, I wish it were all easier.....