Two Religious Truths

Berwyn Lewis - December 26, 2019 — 12.00am

houghts turned to a famous baby on Wednesday. He was conceived through parthenogenesis, a sort of asexual fertilisation process which avoids messy exchanges of bodily fluids and can lead to a virgin birth by a woman. It also avoids troubling questions of paternity.

History is littered with parthenogenesis or virgin births and they’re not all miraculous. Bees do it. Birds do it. Even crayfish and some sharks do it and, while researching my novel, Venice’s Virgin Mother, I discovered that humans have been laying claim to virgin births since time began with the first of the big bangs.

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Jesus wasn't the only one believed to have risen from the dead. Stories of resurrection appear in ancient cultures around the world.

But Christianity isn’t the only ancient faith to worship a deity who dies and then rises again, as the Scottish anthropologist James Frazer explained in The Golden Bough, his landmark 1922 study of world religion and mythology.

In the ancient Near East, where the Bible was written, stories of divine death and resurrection were closely tied with the agricultural cycle, and Frazer believed that early Christians likely chose a spring date for Easter to coincide with existing pagan festivals for their resurrected gods.    SOURCE:  History.com

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I share these two points with you because, these are the two basic foundations of Christianity and the main reason why we have Christians in the first place...  basically because of the crucifixion & resurrection story since Christ died for our sins and if we believe in him, we will join him in heaven...

However, no one can really tell me where HEAVEN is located, nor can they tell me where HELL is located because the Bible offers no such location...

If we assume that neither Heaven nor Hell is located here on earth, then we must assume that it is located somewhere in the universe...  and, since the universe is already larger than we can mentally imagine, the Hubble Telescope has proven that our universe is still expanding...

This expansion makes it even more difficult to pinpoint the location of Heaven and Hell.

Given that the two main stories of Christianity were most probably copied from other mythologies, we are left with a belief that may or may not be true.  So, is there any proof that our religious faith is TRUE or is our religious faith simply based upon an unsubstantiated belief to make the poor people think they had something to look forward to after death.

The one commonality found in all mythologies and religions is that god-like creatures come down to earth from the sky, and give the people technology that they did not have before...  EXAMPLE:  the building of the great pyramids in Giza, Egypt.  

In 2024, we still have no idea how the damn pyramids were constructed, and the blocks cut so precisely and fitted together to tightly....  not to mention moving the stones from the ground to the top of the structure.

Belief in religion is dwindling simply because of the LOGIC of it all.