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If God knows, is, and does everything, why...
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... did he need to become human to better understand us?

And if he only took it a bit easier on humans after becoming human
himself for a while, this shows that God is not infallible and all knowing.

Hey, he shouldn't have made us in the first place if we were so
imperfect that he had to drown us out and start over again, right?

Yes, I was a real pain in the ass in Sunday school. I wish I had done it
more often in other aspects of life. Making up for lost time now.

Before I forget, I once read that George Orwell's novel 1984 was not
just about how bad totalitarian societies can be, but it was also a big
comment on the Roman Catholic Church. The more I think back on what
I was taught and the more I know about how the Vatican operates,
there is more than a little truth to that analysis.

I can imagine that Orwell would have to be more circumspect with such
an accusation even in 1948, but the more I recall how Big Brother
operates and how the characters have to respond to him, the more I
agree with this assessment.

For example, when Winston Smith starts writing "subversive" thoughts
in his diary, he already considers himself a dead man because he dared
to even think wrong things against Big Brother. One thing I was taught
in Sunday school was that if a "bad" thought entered my mind and I did
not immediately banish it, I had committed that sin as surely as if I had
done it in actuality. As George Carlin said about this, that sure saved a
lot of time!

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