alleluia sister alleluia.....I was brought up a baptist in england and even the fervent followers in my chapel gave me the creeps..children sinned if they ate sweets on a Sunday one of our elders informed me..they never did baptise me, i was never really ready for the dunking.
I too have become disillusioned at times. And yes, I often thought about Christ turning over the money changers tables in the temple. But, I've come to realize that I am not qualified to pass judgement on anyone in particular. I say that knowing that I make judgements all the time. On people and things. Hard habit to break. And quite often, more than less, my judgement is wrong or incomplete. Others point that out to me all the time. So, my overall opinion of televangelists is the same as yours but, I have to contradict myself by saying that they are not all cut from the same cloth. There are some decent folks doing good work out there.
Its good to have skeptics. Very important part of the balance of things, seems to me.
If only we humans could get beyond the distortions of the truth by our fellow humans and find a road uncluttered by human perception of what is right or wrong.
Would we then be able to formulate and live by reasonable moral absolutes and trust each other as we all should?
"Bring me peace on Earth"
Jesus stood silent in front of Pontious Pilot who asked him, "What is truth"?
I think you are right we simply cant live by absolutes because everything is relative and subjective.
Do you think our intrinsic innate conscience is a good guide , for instance does a head hunter know killing a member of another tribe and shrinking his head is moral ?
Do humans ever come together in this type of scenario and share the resources between them, I don't think so?
We are animals striving to be perfect but failing dismally..
I would say Xris, that we are perfectly imperfect. Its good to fail now and again. That is how we learn and adapt. Get knocked down on the old buttski and get up over and over again. The key is, to get up, and try again.