I would furthermore add that to be a proper, a good conduit for the Divine amongst humanity, you have to be and work at being a good person.
If you wear dirty glasses, you won't see as well as through clean glasses. Working with broken or rusty tools is not only counterproductive but dangerous.
Case in point: 'saint' Paul and I use the term extremely loosely, like 'president' Dubya absolutely hated Jews and Christians when suddenly he gets struck by a bolt of Divine Revelation and becomes a rabid preacher instead. Maybe he became a bit better man as a result of this Revelation but most of what truly good, intelligent, self-aware people object to in Christiannity is the Paulian-inspired intolerance, misogynism and dogmatism.
no subject
I would furthermore add that to be a proper, a good conduit for the Divine amongst humanity, you have to be and work at being a good person.
If you wear dirty glasses, you won't see as well as through clean glasses.
Working with broken or rusty tools is not only counterproductive but dangerous.
Case in point: 'saint' Paul and I use the term extremely loosely, like 'president' Dubya absolutely hated Jews and Christians when suddenly he gets struck by a bolt of Divine Revelation and becomes a rabid preacher instead. Maybe he became a bit better man as a result of this Revelation but most of what truly good, intelligent, self-aware people object to in Christiannity is the Paulian-inspired intolerance, misogynism and dogmatism.