RE: I mostly believed Christianity briefly recently... you know what hurt the most?
June 12, 2012 at 11:10 am
(June 12, 2012 at 10:56 am)YahwehIsTheWay Wrote:(June 12, 2012 at 2:11 am)hoppimike Wrote: Those all bothered me but no. What bothered me most of all to the point where I felt really unhappy, confused and distressed was the thought of all the people that God was supposedly allowing to burn for eternity in Hell. I actually prayed for the first time since an early teen as far as I remember, and I mostly prayed for forgiveness for the people in Hell!
Welcome Mike,
As True Christians ™ it's not our place to question how the Lord gets his kicks but we do know he's very insecure and needs a crowd of sycophantic mortals to constantly fawn all over him and sing his praises constantly. Life is the ultimate test of our faith, whether we will adore him even though he doesn't appear to exist and if he does, makes a mess of everything. I guess he figures anyone who passes that test is going to kiss his holy ass for all eternity. Those who think for themselves aren't going to do much for his self-esteem and so they need to be tossed into the incinerator like so many rejects off the soul quality control station.
Hope that helps.
"Traditionally, Man's paradigm of morality is religion based on axiomatic reasoning, not subject to objective proof, personified as God, omnipotent throughout time and space. According to this paradigm, Man need not strive to obtain knowledge from any source other than religion for all is given by God; submission to his God will make all known which man needs in his life, and the rest on a "need to know basis" will be revealed to him in the after world. This is a lazy system for man need not strive to find truth, but it is handed down from above: All things are known to God and all man needs to do is apply and follow these laws which are made known by individual revelation from God to man."
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-- Samuel "Mark Twain" Clemens
"I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the scriptures, but with experiments, demonstrations, and observations".
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In short, Meyer has shown that his first disastrous book was not a fluke: he is capable of going into any field in which he has no training or research experience and botching it just as badly as he did molecular biology. As I've written before, if you are a complete amateur and don't understand a subject, don't demonstrate the Dunning-Kruger effect by writing a book about it and proving your ignorance to everyone else! "
- Dr. Donald Prothero
