(January 1, 2017 at 4:22 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:Remember how I said I spent the bulk of my time from then on just pretending to still believe and going through the motions? Contemplating giving the faith a chance to prove itself to me was almost a defense mechanism. Instead it just shot itself in the foot, again.(January 1, 2017 at 3:27 pm)Astonished Wrote: That kind of thing is what prevented me from ever giving it a second chance. I would ask, if Jesus would go around healing the blind, wasn't he just playing favorites? Why do it for them and not everybody who is blind? If there's no level playing field, it's impossible for god to love us all equally, and if he doesn't love us all equally, that isn't a perfectly loving god. Their attempts to over-reach on god's perfection and benevolence backfired as defenses for faith in me.
"A second chance?" A chance to do what?
We have some xtians right here who answer this by saying god doesn't have to be perfectly loving and who are we to require him to be what we want him to be. Excuse me? Why should I trust in the salvation from a god who at any moment can change the meaning of salvation? Can you see those xtians up there at the pearly gates and St. Peter tells them, "Well, you just have to understand..."
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.