You have to try to see it from our perspective, Jenny. Seriously, and I'm not trying to be mean by saying that, or this:
We get people here constantly, endlessly, all telling us (different versions of) what they know about God because it was revealed to them.
It never starts sounding any less silly, with more variants, only more so.
If you went onto a Christian forum and told them you heard the Hindu gods talking to you, they'd tell you what we tell you about Hindu gods. Your generic version of God might be low-key enough not to raise the redflags of the True Believers™ elsewhere, because they can imagine that what you're hearing is really the same as the very specific version of god in which they happen to believe, but as soon as you were specific enough that they could psychologically isolate it from their own ideas about god, you'd go right back to scorn and derision.
To us, from the outside edge of this whole "I talk to god" "No I do!" "No really it's me!!" discussion, it just looks like a bunch of lunatics or schizophrenics trying to explain to us that their invisible friend is the only real invisible friend, and that he wears corduroy pants... no he doesn't he doesn't need clothes because he's a being made of light... wrong he's a shadow in the corner of the room that talks to me as I'm falling asleep... wrong, sir, he's a voice that comes to me when I am sad... WRONG! he's ... (See my point?)
We get people here constantly, endlessly, all telling us (different versions of) what they know about God because it was revealed to them.
It never starts sounding any less silly, with more variants, only more so.
If you went onto a Christian forum and told them you heard the Hindu gods talking to you, they'd tell you what we tell you about Hindu gods. Your generic version of God might be low-key enough not to raise the redflags of the True Believers™ elsewhere, because they can imagine that what you're hearing is really the same as the very specific version of god in which they happen to believe, but as soon as you were specific enough that they could psychologically isolate it from their own ideas about god, you'd go right back to scorn and derision.
To us, from the outside edge of this whole "I talk to god" "No I do!" "No really it's me!!" discussion, it just looks like a bunch of lunatics or schizophrenics trying to explain to us that their invisible friend is the only real invisible friend, and that he wears corduroy pants... no he doesn't he doesn't need clothes because he's a being made of light... wrong he's a shadow in the corner of the room that talks to me as I'm falling asleep... wrong, sir, he's a voice that comes to me when I am sad... WRONG! he's ... (See my point?)
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
