This site is about Alkozira and what I learned there. What do Alkozirans think about what I’m writing here? Mostly nothing. As I’ve told you, they don’t like to think about us. But I know them, and I can tell you that when they think about something like comparative religion, which they do, they tend to see similarities, not differences. We humans mostly think about the differences.
While their ideas about religion can’t really be easily compared to ours, it is fair to say, they are more like Unitarian Universalists, than, well you know, pretty much everybody else.
First, I should mention my funny conundrum. When I talk about evolution and human origins, with either evolutionists or non-evolutionists, they both get mad at me. Ha, how ’bout that. I have no home.
But, of course, evolution is true. Come on! Life has evolved! Life has evolved. How cool is that? That is so cool.
If there is a God like the one most religious people believe in, then he guided it. He did it or somehow influenced it. If there is no God, than wow, what’s going on? Either way: There is Something Really Interesting Going On!
TISRIGO! We should be dancing, hugging, and wowing, all the time!
I grew up in a church that believed the world was about 6000 years old. What does that have to do with anything? Stay with me.
I loved that church, and the people in that church. It was a great childhood. They were mostly good people. I had fun, fun, fun, and a lot of really good friends.
But they were wrong.
Fundamentalists don’t seem to like the word fundamentalist, but that’s what they were. They believed every word in the Bible is true, and that the world was around 6000 years old.
Come on. The world is not 6000 years old. It is 4 billion years, or so, old. That church was one of, apparently 8196 non-Catholic, Christian denominations (or should it be approximately – new protestant denominations pop-up everyday). Or wait, is it 55,000 including the Catholics (who are a very tiny part of that number), or 45,000, or 33,000, or 28,000, or several other mostly huge numbers I found after hardly any research time. I kind of prefer the 8196 number, plus a few versions of Catholics added. So maybe a little over 8196?
To be fair, most of the numbers seemed to be actually carefully thought out. It’s just a matter of what you decide to count. For the higher numbers I think they counted each independent church, of which there are very many, and each one can have it’s own unique set of beliefs.
Seems silly to me, but hey…!
And if you have any sense at all, you’re saying, Ha! Who the h, e, double toothpicks, cares what the exact number is? There are a lot!
Most of those 8200 or whatever number you like, are sure they are the one true interpretation of Christianity. There are a few that are a little more open minded, who may say a few other denominations are mostly correct.
Then there are the small handful of really crazy liberal denominations who say, “EVERYONE is OKAY”. Like the Baha’i or the Unitarian Universalists, which I think believe everyone is all right, even non-Christians.
I think you and I know it doesn’t really matter. It would be the same if there were only 50 or 100.
Whatever the number, each one is right, and all the others are wrong.
This is one of the countless things about we humans that is beyond the Alkozirans.
So, back to the title of this page. Where did we come from?
The short answer is we evolved. Marvelous, incredible, mind-boggling, obviously-true, evolution. Was God involved? I think so, but don’t know. And neither do you. And the more sure you are, the less likely you are to be right. That’s a fact.
But hey, it’s something that will really be fun to explore. Let’s go!
tisrigo 