Did you choose your God or inherit him?

1 Thess4
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

Statistics on religious knowledge are dismal for theists when compared with non theists. This indicates that their own religion is not important to theists and they only follow their God out of tradition and do not feel a need to actually know the theology behind their God. So much for a personal God that theists speak of.

This link shows how most Gods are blindly inherited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYigmGyN2...e=youtu.be

Religion is primarily an external conscience for those who don't trust their own judgment. They say they do not judge God but only follow him as an external conscience and support any atrocities he perpetrates. These non judging people have judged their God to be good. They do not recognize their own contradiction.

Should theists not be comparing all religions to seek the best external conscience they can find?
Unless of course they have all found a better external conscience in secular government.
If so, why have a religion or tradition to hang on to?

Their religions have thus become without value as theist have already given Caesar everything and have left nothing for God except perhaps, lip service.

You and I wake up and follow natural law. We then proceed to follow secular law till we go to sleep. What laws of God do theists even consider at all during the day?

None that I can see.

Can theists, as users of God or the word as an external conscience, be actually called Christians when the laws they live by are pure secular in nature?

Should Christians call themselves Secularist, as that is the law they live by and not the laws of bible God?

Theists then seem to be hypocrites and this is good. Let’s thank the stars that theists are not foolish enough to follow their God and his laws. We could not afford to jail that many fools.

I submit that if you follow a religion that you did not actively choose, you are likely not a true believer in any sense of the word.
As others see this hypocrisy, they learn what it is like to be as you are and you are actively helping to kill your own religion.

Thanks for helping those against your own to reduce your numbers.
Like Noah and the God you follow, if you belong to one of the myriad Abrahamic sects, you are a traitor to your own kind by your poor example.

Regards
DL

I killed Larry and became the Creator...

So I guess you could say I inherited him... and given that free will does not exist I suppose I couldn't have chosen to kill hem (despite making the conscious decision to do so).

So now I am a Resurrection Creator Goddess Valuable Transsexual Anarchist Silicoid Empress who controls a significant portion of this galaxy. What a mouthful.

I'm one of those lucky people who inherited her gods... 3 of which love me, 3 of which hate me, 1 of which I killed, and 1 of which stepped down long ago.

(Honest.)

I disinherited the motherfucker.

A thought that bothers me from time to time is wondering what would've happened if I had been brought up in a more religious environment. Would I have had the strength to recognise the evidence and break away?

It's a bit of an 'If my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle' question, and it doesn't keep me up all night or anything. But I wonder what would have happened if I had inherited a God?

(September 19, 2011 at 9:04 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I disinherited the motherfucker.

greatest decision I ever made.

Did you choose your God or inherit him?

Neither actually;'to inherit' implies some choice,as one may refuse an inheritance. I had no such luxury.

He was handed to me, and when I tried him, I said, "If god tasted more like a cheeseburger, there might be more xtians." It tastes like shit, the wine sucks, and there is no party: Why bother worshipping such a boring ass fantasy? Give me orgies, real wine and pan flutes if we're going to play with the divinity set.

(September 19, 2011 at 10:26 pm)Epimethean Wrote: He was handed to me, and when I tried him, I said, "If god tasted more like a cheeseburger, there might be more xtians." It tastes like shit, the wine sucks, and there is no party: Why bother worshipping such a boring ass fantasy? Give me orgies, real wine and pan flutes if we're going to play with the divinity set.

You might just be my kind of man. My heart is going pitter-patter.

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PS - my people inherits their god like no fucking other, and let me tell you...I would have preferred the gold. Where did that shit go?!

I think the Arabs took it, summer.

Secularism was the god I rejected. It still pulls strongly.