RE: Still struggling.
February 14, 2016 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2016 at 11:56 am by God of Mr. Hanky.)
(February 14, 2016 at 8:35 am)robvalue Wrote: I've heard some people say "I choose to believe that..." Well, if you choose to believe it, you don't believe it. Belief is not a choice. You can choose to want to believe it, and to tell people you believe it, of course.
Aye, there is where I knew that something was rotten and stinking in the culture where I was raised - among even the most quiet, non-evangelical Protestants (those who limit their proselytizing to children in their Sunday-schools), the words "choice" and "decide", and "believe" were by far the most bandied words which you would here. How do you ask Jesus to "come into your life" when you have no reason to believe he exists? It's simply a "decision" which you have to make, or face the threatened consequences! The people who feed this filthy salad of mangled words mixed up with pathogen-laden feces to children are the average American parents who will go to war in Congress to protect children from exposure to sex through skin photos of consenting adults, as if that were in any way by comparison "porn"!
Mr. Hanky loves you!