http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/It's organized religion.hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/578405It existed before Civilization. Take the hunter-gatherer societies you will still find around the world today. The members all share a responsibility for the tribal unit, are taught that responsibility, and all work to gather what they all need as a unit. The unit is usually self-sufficient and...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/566938What is "adultery"? Have you ever checked the meaning in the dictionary? I mean of the English word, "Adultery". It means "covenant breaking". So we can safely assume that we are talking about the marriage covenant here. Then we might also safely assume that sex not bound by the confines of the...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/565457It's bad to lie. No doubt. Habitual liars are especially bad -- they harm themselves and those around them. There are those who may not lie about others, but lie about their own accomplishments in order to cover a low self-esteem. These people do great harm to themselves in that they don't allow...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/564336Oh God!!! Jesus Christ!!! You've heard all those exclamations and then some, one of the most usual being asking God to impose eternal damnation on some unknown, mostly nothing it seems, sometimes directed at something or someone. Of course these are not serious. But I think Jesus summed it up...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/562116Exd 20:17 ¶ Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that [is] thy neighbour's COVET -- usually what comes to mind is wishing for something. You see a bright, shiny, red...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/514073was taken and eaten. Burials. At the dawn of Homo Sapiens Sapiens' appearance on Earth, when people were arrayed in hunter-gatherer groups, in the burial sites, everybody was buried alike, the same. There were no differences or castes. However, as humans took up agriculture and arrayed themselves...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/491262It has for at least 15,000 years. Almost as soon as religion made its appearance on the world scene, it has attempted to regulate human activity and morals. Those priests, etc., who were in charge of religion were the "gods" to those lay adherents, and defined good and evil for them. Religion...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/485072Answer the questions below and leave your answer as a comment (you can use Romans 6 as a reference). 1. What is another word for evil? a. good b. kindness c. sin 2. How does the knowledge of sin come about? a. by your own opinion b. by someone else's opinion? c. by a law that defines 3. How does...http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/460542for a link to various sites, CLICK HEREhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/westwend700/460529Read the previous post. THERE is where the idea of one god comes from. Next I think I'll take up the idea of "kings" and "king of kings". the KING James sort of supports that notion, don't you think?