RE: If you have a question about god, ask an atheist
May 30, 2011 at 12:00 pm
(This post was last modified: May 30, 2011 at 12:19 pm by RAD.)
(May 29, 2011 at 1:24 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: This is old news since it came out a month or two ago, but it confirms what I believe about most Christians not knowing what's in the bible or some of the basic tenets of their faith.
This is unfortunately true. I wrote a book which talks about (among other irritating things) how ignorant Christians are, and how their "faith" contradicts the NT in a hundred places. It won a gold medal in its category, in a medium-sized book contest, but few Christians are much interested in reading it.
The greatest revival leaders, like Whitefield, Nee, and Seymour, were invariably labeled heretics, and kicked out of their churches, just for pointing out what Christians were doing that not one apostle ever did or said to do.
I do wish both atheists and Christians could grasp one piece of infallible logic: if God exists, then we are all boneheads by definition. Presuming to make contact with him via doctrine or "thinking" is stupid by definition.
(May 29, 2011 at 6:30 pm)Welsh cake Wrote: And even if God's real and actually does love me, what do I care? This doesn't change the fact that when I'm dead, I'm dead. He's never even sent me a fucking postcard to show he even gives a damn about me (no pun intended).
Aw, you didn't get your own personal postcard. I sorry. You just got a NT Jesus, and a hundred other misguided and unquestionably brave souls died to get in your hands.
Quote:G-C, I don't care. I don't think the Biblical God is real. Why should I entertain the notion of understanding what these products of fantasies' schemes for me are? They haven't met their burden of proof.
Likewise were I to meet two people on the street today, one professing " The one true God, the giant frog in the sun, is going to burn you [me] to the bone someday", and then the guy next to him retorts "No, he's a liar, the one true God, the giant platypus in the sun, loves you [me] very much and would never do such a thing", I consider these claims and ask for proof only to get none, I disbelieve them both and care nothing for what they advocate.
I thought you guys insisted on informing yourselves and making your own choices BTW.
Were I to meet an atheist on the street talking as you do, I would want to know how "goatherders" managed to write such profound insights as Jesus made, which by the way NONE of the founders rejected as profound except Paine. Him the other founders labeled with such endearing terms of the day like "blackgard" for writing "Age of Reason." Jefferson called Jesus' teaching "the most sublime." Althoough he rejected Jesus' divinity, he made up his own designer Bible hoping to spread his words.
It was more the age of NT revelation, since 98% all the leaders of the social Enlightenment were Protestant Christians I'm afraid. Nobody had read the damn thing for 1400 years really. No one knew that Jesus' mission statement in Luke 4 reads like the first socialist manifesto. It's all about liberty and setting people free, ironically.
