One might dare make the observation that since this is clearly an atheist forum, (see banner), that it is Theists or the religious, that have clearly gone out of their way to choose to argue with us.
KJV) Mark 16:15
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
St. Francis preached the gospel to animals and birds. So, going out of their way isn't something new to the religious. They do it all the time, when they visit impoverished countries that are use to sympathetic magic's, primitive belief systems, and hoping all get's better as they bury their emaciated babies, while flies drink from the living's mucous membranes because even they are thirsty. They go there, affording a new myth, a new fiction, a new way out. If only the people shall believe. If only they'll be Baptized with what little water may be found, to give a sprinkle unto salvation. They are told if they but obey the new god and his son, all of whom are the only true one's out there, that mercy shall be granted unto them for the faith they show the word.
Crops do not then spring forth, the dry riverbed does not overflow with water. The well, does not bear fresh water. The disease does not cease to take them. But Bibles suddenly appear. And if the people are lucky, so too shall shipments of medicine, first aid supplies, seed's and bottled water. All brought by the emissaries of the new god, to those that believe.
And only until then.
Why? Because god, who knows all and is everywhere at all times, is only available when believers go forth and spread the good news. That now, if they but accept it on faith that it's all true, they shall be saved.
Saved from being human. Saved from the fires and torture after this life. Saved from what ails them in this life, if they make the free will choice to permit missionaries bearing conditional gifts to stay and teach how wrong the people were, until the new god's ambassadors arrived.
And if the people do everything just right, they shall be saved from the god that watched them suffer before the mission arrived. And this time, when they die with flies drinking from their eyes, they shall be better people when they're dead.
IF they're on the guest list and are allowed past the gate that stands before the mouth of Heaven.
So when it's charged that atheists here go out of their way to argue with the religious, perhaps it may be said they arrived here in this place to speak to we atheists they call damned, because we do not accept their god is real because compassion, if it were doled out by the invisible, could never look like that what is described in their book that's held forth as a tome to teach us how we're all so mistaken and deluded not to accept every word as holy writ.
Who is it then that is going out of their way.
KJV) Mark 16:15
And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
St. Francis preached the gospel to animals and birds. So, going out of their way isn't something new to the religious. They do it all the time, when they visit impoverished countries that are use to sympathetic magic's, primitive belief systems, and hoping all get's better as they bury their emaciated babies, while flies drink from the living's mucous membranes because even they are thirsty. They go there, affording a new myth, a new fiction, a new way out. If only the people shall believe. If only they'll be Baptized with what little water may be found, to give a sprinkle unto salvation. They are told if they but obey the new god and his son, all of whom are the only true one's out there, that mercy shall be granted unto them for the faith they show the word.
Crops do not then spring forth, the dry riverbed does not overflow with water. The well, does not bear fresh water. The disease does not cease to take them. But Bibles suddenly appear. And if the people are lucky, so too shall shipments of medicine, first aid supplies, seed's and bottled water. All brought by the emissaries of the new god, to those that believe.
And only until then.
Why? Because god, who knows all and is everywhere at all times, is only available when believers go forth and spread the good news. That now, if they but accept it on faith that it's all true, they shall be saved.
Saved from being human. Saved from the fires and torture after this life. Saved from what ails them in this life, if they make the free will choice to permit missionaries bearing conditional gifts to stay and teach how wrong the people were, until the new god's ambassadors arrived.
And if the people do everything just right, they shall be saved from the god that watched them suffer before the mission arrived. And this time, when they die with flies drinking from their eyes, they shall be better people when they're dead.
IF they're on the guest list and are allowed past the gate that stands before the mouth of Heaven.
So when it's charged that atheists here go out of their way to argue with the religious, perhaps it may be said they arrived here in this place to speak to we atheists they call damned, because we do not accept their god is real because compassion, if it were doled out by the invisible, could never look like that what is described in their book that's held forth as a tome to teach us how we're all so mistaken and deluded not to accept every word as holy writ.
Who is it then that is going out of their way.
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy
Brian Tracy
