RE: What would you do if you found out God existed
October 5, 2017 at 9:21 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2017 at 9:25 pm by Astonished.)
(October 5, 2017 at 9:10 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(October 5, 2017 at 9:03 pm)Astonished Wrote: My mind is blown by you giving me kudos for my reply. Are you trying to trigger my self-destruct mechanism? Good thing I changed the activation code on it.
It was a gorgeous reply. I loved it.
Killing me with kindness? I guess I can and should lighten up a bit on you and a few choice others lest it bleed into other interactions offline. I've only just discovered the joys of Mass Effect (yes, I'm like a decade behind the times) and I have a four-day weekend so I'm feeling pretty damn skippy.
I get you wanting to love your unrealistic idea of your god. Every battered partner wants to think they can fix them, change them, believe in them and hope for the best in them to manifest itself and stay for good. But I look at you with your black eye and broken teeth and I want to weep; and I look at what that poisonous partner you idealize has done to you and want to shove his face into a meat grinder.
You can't expect us to wear the same rose-colored glasses as you because we're not numb to the thorns on them as you've become. We see the proof in the pudding that the foundation it's based on is what's creating a world full of animosity and corruption and even the harmless ones are simple gullible sheep.
If god is indeed a father, he should act like a parent and be attentive, be protective, be a good teacher and treat us like adults once we grow up. He has failed in every single one of these duties according to your scriptures. The dynamic is different of course; there's no expectation that he's ever going to get old and decrepit and be dependent on us in his golden years. Maybe that's why his character is so fucked up. The people who invented him clearly had no idea what else to make of it.
There is literally nothing in the bible that couldn't have been invented or learned by early primitives. Nothing divinely inspired would be needed to come up with any portion of it. What would something divinely inspired even sound like? Surely nothing we have ever seen before, and nothing we could ever think of as mundane no matter how long it's lasted throughout the ages.
I know you probably think you or someone has a legitimate objection to these, but you don't, dear. You really don't. And to try is like having to watch you lie to the police so they don't take him away for giving you a fat lip.
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.