Three score years, plus ten ...

Now here's a question for you, dear reader(s) ... if the allotted life span of human beings is 70, according to the holy book of Christian folk, which includes the much older testament of Judaism, where a wrathful God presided ... indeed it's Psalm 90 in that book, going back to before humans arrived here, which says 70, and even 80 if you're strong:

How is it that in recent recorded history, maybe a millennium or more, humans were lucky to reach half that number? Or unlucky, since history tells is that most lives were nasty, brutish and short?

Answers on a comment, please ... if you can work out how!

Now here's a subsequent question:

Why does the holy book of Christian folk, based on the loving life of Jesus Christ (the clue is in the surname) contain the one about God being angry most of the time, making lots of readers feel guilty (especially Catholics)?

I know it's unfashionable to study theology these days, but these questions exercised the mind during many miles of pilgrimming and still intrigue me ...being rather old these days and living on borrowed time, as pessimists proclaim ... optimists say: Every day's a bonus! and Make hay while the Sun shines!

Anyway, the Bible, old or new, never spoke to me ... due partly to rejecting the culture of my childhood being Christian and its followers so often hypocritical, including priests, vicars, ministers, bishops, archbishops, cardinals and popes ( Mum was Methodist, Dad Congregational, nominally, neither having time for churchgoing except the usual wedding, christening, funeral trio ... come to think of it, they spent more time practising than preaching the universal values of JC than many telling others about it!) ... where were we? Oh yes, the other part was resistance to the one creator God of the Abrahamic crew; including Jews, Christians and Muslims in date order. When the time came to hedge the bets, it was Buddhism that drew me, mainly because it was perfectly acceptable to call it philosophy without the religious form. The other interest since youth was psychology, the workings of the mind and all the madness seen in the world as was ... that world, quite frankly, never made sense and makes even less in this time of fascism  throughout the world ... hopefully burning off the millennia or two of hatred, violence and war ... condoned in practice by the authorities of the creator God of the Abrahamic religions.

So what's the problem here?

A God who created a world so cruel?
Religions created by humans, mostly male?
Authority itself?

So many questions, so little time! Your blogger passed on to borrowed time yesterday ... not long now. Luckily there seem to be many lives; ongoing consciousness. Not that this humble blogger has fallen into Solipcism by the way, all Souls are playing the infinite game of Life, not separate from each other or any imaginary superhuman separate from us ... pointing to Dao again, not any religious form of that or any other, but unity is unity ... draw your own conclusions.