RE: Heaven seems awful 2 me-"Theist laughs at loudly & with great cruelty"
May 9, 2016 at 1:49 am
(May 9, 2016 at 12:31 am)Godschild Wrote: First of all if you want to consider yourself intellectually sophisticated, you should study the Bible and the Christian religion before you condemn any of it. If you do not you must consider yourself intellectually handicapped.
GC
Done. Long ago. So much study that I consider your fundamentalist/literalist interpretations worse than laughable; they are pitiable to any serious religious scholar who has not pledged himself to fundamentalism.
What now?
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.
