My analysis is I guess many of the major problems, even wars, were due to the misconception of the above terminologies. The creation of the Catholic Church would be one. It's been proved that a Christ-likeness approach would send time and money in magnificent buildings/lands and huge organisation/staff. However, a Jesus-likeness approach would possibly spend time and money to serve the needy/ homeless/ oppressed/ etc. I also believe Jesus already predicted (perhaps according to his actual observations from some Jews) by saying parables such as that some non-belivers (the younger brother) could actually carry out certain things to please God (father) more than some believers (the elder brother) do. There was a suggestion/comment within the Catholic (she was a vice chancellor of university) that the Church should give up all the wealth in order to become a better one because this way would bring the Church much closer to people. Personally I think this is a good idea. If the Catholic Church, or any Protestant Church, can exist and function without requiring any building of bricks, that would mean the church will be very outreaching, touching people's daily life and homes. Just like many social-work field workers. Worshipers of the Creator should be close and enjoy the Creator's creatures including fresh air, flowing waters, sun-light, flowers, birds, trees, etc. Rather than sitting inside an expensive brick-building, that can be used for the homeless or needy. Or hospitals/ schools/ job training/ etc. Otherwise, a church worker would have to say to a homeless, " Sorry, we have to lock up our building tonight! We just can't help! Very sorry!"
last I checked, the Catholic Church was the largest landowner in the world, making Trump look like a peon. Not sure if that is still true, after it was reported they may have laundered a lot of those properties. All this information is readily available. Just go to the NRA waebsite and start clicking links. Sometimes you have to click many links to finally get to the truth or to the point where they just recycle you until you finally give them valid credit card information (it doesn't have to be yours.)
I think God should be much more than pure energy! Already discussed a bit previously in another thread. Do you have any good book about definition of God to recommend? I am just starting to read Dworkin's "Religion without God" mentioned earlier.
Some excellent comments above. To add my two cents...regarding the God is energy thing... In the beginning was chaos. The first structures, the first obvious hand of "God", can be seen in these. With nothing more than a few simple rules chaos is defeated. Energy is organized. Here we have the spiral, the wheel and a straight line. With hundreds of billions of stars in this one galaxy are there also not many gardens of Eden? If one wants to know God one must study nature. BTW Merry Christmas All. Almost all of the "stars" seen here are in our own galaxy. See how many background galaxies you can find.
I agree. In the beginning and all there ever has been, is the Universe. I think that makes most sense. Merry Christmas.
I would think a very important point in the politics history is probably when a whoever party becoming a ruling party, it will naturally change to behaving like a power control-freak and populist party. This is not healthy. However, a reality that should be improved. Technically the size of a government could be manipulated by paying contractors to perform government's fundamental works, even during wars - in order to reduce the number of military casualties. My idea would be individual voters after an election should pay attention to facts objectively for monitoring government performance, rather than merely party line.
My idea is the definition of God should better integrate all aspects of religion, philosophy and science. I understand many people have been working on this obvious direction. I am also currently reading/studying some books on this interesting topic. Happy Holiday Season!
Unecessary complication. All aspects of religion, philosophy and science are defined. That's why they are called religion, philosophy and science Defining them as God is ridiculous, at best, superfluous. Merry Xmas.