(April 15, 2022 at 6:50 am)ABQ505 Wrote: Now, this man says he's been a Christian for 30 years, and that God has slowly freed him from his compulsions, but that God is "taking his time" to "heal" him from "bondage" (interesting word choice for this application).
It's interesting how believers will say "God will fix [this or that] thing. Oftentimes, it's a lot like we use the term "Mother Nature."
"Mother Nature won't let the deer population grow too large." well, yeah. When we say that we don't mean some old lady going around knocking off excess deer with a magic wand. We are referring to causal forces as a personified entity. Except when Christians do it, they actually insist that you believe in the person in the metaphor.
What sucks about it is, there is actually a genuine strength within you that enables you to overcome life's difficulties. But by calling it God and associating it with their religion, they get to say that that force won't "be there for you" under certain circumstances (like, if God is pissed at you or something-shrug-). But that's bullshit. You are either strong enough to do something or you aren't.
I'd never let some religion impose constraints on my inner strength.
