RE: Sex vs. Christianity
July 21, 2012 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2012 at 10:05 am by Reforged.)
(July 21, 2012 at 9:58 am)catfish Wrote:(July 21, 2012 at 9:48 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: Yeah I did and I once believed in a heaven and a God. Until I looked at it properly. Do you know what the best way to control people is? Shock and awe. Make them feel fear, make them feel wonder, make them feel anything to prevent them from questioning and from thinking.
Can you think of anything, anything quite so frightening as burning forever? Or anything quite so wonderful as the promise of eternal paradise? I can't. But you can't question it. No. Can't present evidence for it either. Got to believe as hard as you can or you might not see your loved ones again. I think thats what stops most theists in their tracks you know. They need to believe it isn't the end, that they can resolve everything they left undone in the next life. They fear death with every ounce of themselves if they think for one second that might not be true.
What better means to control someone with than that?
But its not the truth, no-ones ever proved it is. All we've got is a smile and a promise. Thats all. And what if it isn't true? What then? Do you waste your life pursuing it? Under the control of the bastards who would use your loved ones memories against you like they were tools to be used?
Wouldn't it be better to live free as you like? As moral as you like? As happy as you like? To live this life, the only one we can be certain that we have and use the memories of the dead as inspiration for us to live and one we can hand down to our children? Isn't that, in a way a form of eternal life? One we can prove is real?
Make no mistake, religions weapons of choice are shock and awe. If you deny them that, you're free.
I can deny the religionist's shock and awe campaign with their own weapon (the Bible).
My problem is that even the "non-believers" fall for the same lies the religious spew forth.
2 Timothy 4:3-5
New International Version (NIV)
3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.
No, you can't. As long as you bind yourself to it they still have control over you. Even now you're only able to make moral justifications as long as they're compatible with certain cherry picked Bible verses.
What is so worthwhile about it that you need to hang onto it? You know what morality is, you don't need religion for that. You never did. When did cherry picking ever reveal the whole truth? If you're choosing through your own moral compass then you're not following the Bible, you're following parts. A version tailored to you? Why? Why bother? You don't need it, you're more moral than that book. I don't know anyone who isn't.
Morality isn't the reason you hang onto that book. Have you asked yourself what the real reason is?
"That is not dead which can eternal lie and with strange aeons even death may die."
- Abdul Alhazred.
- Abdul Alhazred.
