My personal view is that being given a world-view in which a huge external Entity is Responsible for Creation, and to whom Everyone Should Pray even if No Answers Appear is a good way to induce apathy and hopelessness into someone. I know that is not supposed to be the message, and that dissonance is one of the problems I have with the iconography and cosmology Being doomed to unforgiven sinner-hood unless and until one accepts an invisible, non=responsive siupport agent is kind of enough to twist anyone's mind around a phone pole, IMHO. Fortunately many Christians do not focus heavily on the ideological unpalatabiliies and concentrate on the undying virtues of compassion and help.


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