That's fine , and maybe my premise is flawed. Really what I want to do, is kind of search out for the connections between human theological activity. And I guess I don't expect it to make the easiest of sense. I sense that this thread is generally unpalatable. I'll re-frame a different variation on this topic for some other time
Really I think it's too big for my head. Maybe I'm wrong, but I think there's always a way to step back, from the activity that one see's around oneself, and see that maybe there is a much larger pattern occurring.. one that I don't understand completely, and you probably don't, and any other reader of this sentence probably does not. There is resistance to this, understandably. Maybe it isn't exactly good to think in a non-confident way, is what I'm thinking, because really 'big picture' stuff seems like in can be a waste of time to worry about. Well I work 3rd shift, and I couldn't sleep this weekend, so I was up all night listening to podcasts... 20 minutes of this, 20 minutes of that.. everyone wants to talk about 'big picture' level stuff
I think that thousands of years ago, there was probably more 'death penalty' type stuff in religion than there generally is now.. There was more severity, it seems like people were more severe with themselves and each other, at times.. that's not to say that this cannot happen today, but I think that awareness is kind of increasing. It kinds of seems like technology is causing the bubbles in-between people to pop a bit, and insulated layers in-between ideas and groups is getting melted down, in kind of an awkward and perhaps uncomfortable way
I don't know