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Wrong time-scale "lens".
Anyone who thinks that the next 6-decades ( "tribulation" aka "armageddon" aka "The Great Filter" ) are going to be soft, is delusional.
Ever noticed that toddlers need a different kind of parenting than-do teenagers??
The people of past-times were MUCH less critical-reasoning trained than we, of today, are, with programming & science.
The kind of management-of-them that was appropriate was fundamentally different from what is required for current humankind's "bootcamp", which the next 6-decades are going to be.
It'll be experience-induced-understanding that the LAW is, if any of humanity survive The Great Filter.
Instinct, not rote-learning or commandments-posted-before-all.
Instinct-that-cannot-be-argued.
It'll be humankind embodying law, not reading-about it.
Think about the difference between a soft armchair-"soldier" vs one who's lived real war, for real years.
THAT is the kind of difference between humankind's past condition & what's required by context of humankind for the next 6-decades, & then you'll understand that the fundamental-nature of "religion" changes from book-orientation to LivingSpirit-orientation when LivingSpirit-orientation's the only way of surviving when outnumbered 9:1 ( or whatever it is ) as the civilrights-loyal/LivingSpirit-loyal ones are, against the ideologues/supremacists/fanatics.
No more "i hold my holy-book, which holds/possesses God", but instead "I'm living IN my God", if you understand the difference-in-meaning that those 2 kinds are being..
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