HOW DOES THAT GO AGAIN?

 Robert's been banging on about god and Jesus and things again.

It seems that he thinks his deities are helpful to mankind and in some way set examples for us to follow.

My problem with this is that the instructions from Robert's gods are a bit hard to follow - kind of like when you buy something that needs assembling from IKEA or any Chinese manufacturer.

Now I feel qualified to comment on the Catholic Church's teaching as I was brainwashed  subjugated indoctrinated taught the Catechism for about 13 years through Catholic Primary, Intermediate and Secondary schools.

Now I'm not a stupid person but Christian Doctrine was my worst subject and the one that I continually failed in. I guess logic was my strongpoint and I couldn't find any in it.

No doubt I'll bang on about mention it again in the future but here are some examples:

According to Roman Catholic theology, the seven deadly sins are the seven behaviours or feelings that inspire further sin. They are typically ordered as: 

1. pride, 
2. greed, 
3. lust, 
4. envy, 
5. gluttony, 
6. wrath, 
7. and sloth.

Pride is considered the original and most serious of the seven deadly sins on almost every list. It is the most angelical or demonic out of them. It is also thought to be the source of the other capital sins, known as hubris (from Ancient Greek ὕβρις) or futility.

OK, but when we look at the Ten Commandments that Robert's god lobbed out of the sky down to Moses it seems to me that old goddy is breaking the first deadly sin straight away and is a bit off-key with the others. This of course doesn't even mention the repetition that in the BBC radio game show Just a Minute was certainly a major sin.

Buzzz .... "Repetition".

The Ten Commandments

1. I am the Lord your God. You shall not have strange gods before me. You shall not make to thyself any graven thing; nor the likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or in the earth beneath, nor of those things that are in the waters under the earth. You shall not adore them nor serve them.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Sabbath day.
4. Honour your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbour.
9. You shall not covet your neighbour’s wife.
10. You shall not covet your neighbour’s goods.

In commandments one, two and three, apart from the repetition, god seems to be a bit up himself which kind of commits the deadly sins of pride, greed, envy and wrath together.

Now I'd like to give Robert's god and the Catholic Church a fair go, fair go mate, but I do think that we should try and keep things on track.

At this level I'm just asking for consistency. There are a whole lot of other levels that we could investigate - and, of course write more posts about - that defy common sense  and logic. Most of these are embedded in the Catechism like that nonsense about the Eucharist, the Resurrection, the Ascension, the Assumption, Heaven, Hell, Angels, and the Revelation and a whole lot more are to be found in the Bible ( both testaments), Catholic apologists podcasts, Sunday sermons and Robert's blog posts. There's plenty of inspiration to keep us going for quite a while.

I guess, like IKEA and Chinese assembly instructions, a lot of Catholic dogma gets lost in translation.