RE: Near death experience of Howard Storm
January 29, 2016 at 2:41 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2016 at 2:42 am by Cecelia.)
"God is changing the hearts of people to love around the world.*"
*Except in the middle east, where terrorists will start killing innocent people. Including the attacks on September 11th 2001 and the attacks in Paris in 2015. Also this love is not extended to gay people. Or Black people. But we forgot to mention this because these events hadn't happened when the book was published in 2000. Long after the Cold War had ended.
An Atheist in America might have a Christian NDE, while an Atheist in India may have a Hindu NDE. Something tells me that an afterlife would not be a CYOA. So why do we get Islamic NDE's of their version of Paradise? What makes Storm's NDE 'authentic' and the Hindu Woman's NDE 'not authentic'?
"The Devil can show people NDE's" defense is stupid too. Maybe the Devil showed Howard Storm this NDE. Maybe the Devil wrote the bible to fool people into following it. Maybe the Devil is really Yahweh, and getting people to worship him instead of Satan, who is actually God. You could make all sorts of claims that the devil is doing, yet none who use this defense seem to consider it unless it benefits their position.
*Except in the middle east, where terrorists will start killing innocent people. Including the attacks on September 11th 2001 and the attacks in Paris in 2015. Also this love is not extended to gay people. Or Black people. But we forgot to mention this because these events hadn't happened when the book was published in 2000. Long after the Cold War had ended.
An Atheist in America might have a Christian NDE, while an Atheist in India may have a Hindu NDE. Something tells me that an afterlife would not be a CYOA. So why do we get Islamic NDE's of their version of Paradise? What makes Storm's NDE 'authentic' and the Hindu Woman's NDE 'not authentic'?
"The Devil can show people NDE's" defense is stupid too. Maybe the Devil showed Howard Storm this NDE. Maybe the Devil wrote the bible to fool people into following it. Maybe the Devil is really Yahweh, and getting people to worship him instead of Satan, who is actually God. You could make all sorts of claims that the devil is doing, yet none who use this defense seem to consider it unless it benefits their position.
The whole tone of Church teaching in regard to woman is, to the last degree, contemptuous and degrading. - Elizabeth Cady Stanton