RE: When do you plan to Convert to Christanity?
January 29, 2013 at 6:52 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2013 at 6:56 am by Mystical.)
Dear christian,
Thought I'd take a minute from my carefree life to explain to you what I see, as an athiest, and what you see as a christian.
Try as you might, to put yourself in my shoes for once please. I know you think that dropping god is an easy out, hence your statement,
but I would beg to differ. Highly. If anything not only do I have the weight of the world on my shoulders instead of gods, but now I too
have to worry about your world view staining every bit of my life that you can effect then dealing with your imp-unities in the process.
For Example:
You see an unrepentant murderer, I see the same. You see an evil soul destined for hell to be punished for his actions, I see a man whose done wrong in his life, yet there is nothing besides earthly justice for his crimes. What's done is done, I have peace in knowing that there's nothing that can be done besides look to the future and try to learn from the past. You on the other hand, watch him die by lethal injection with a sense of vindication knowing that he will be in hell for his actions. I see him die and cry because he was probably mentally ill or hurt so irreparably by someone else, that he became something incomprehensible. What's more is he's dying for a notion of "an eye for an eye", and in your bible it is not murder to kill a murderer for their crime.
I cry for him, and his victim, and I don't just stop there. I see hope that humanity can stop hurting one other one day by holding itself accountable, not in the next life but in this one. I hope that one day humanity can stop killing those that need the most study and understanding. I hope that mankind can stop fulfilling its' selfish want of retribution in order to bring light to what causes such evil in the first place, and avoiding it from continuing.
Yet at the time of this murderers' (justified in your eyes) death, you stop there, you brush your shoulders, and you move on. I don't forget, I can never forget, and I do everything in my power to help those who have been hurt so they won't hurt others, I fight mental illness in my own family and friends with as much conviction as you hold in your god assertion. I make a stand, in essence, with life--in hopes of improving it one person at a time. You have a passive at best attitude towards it that is the same attitude that allows these travesties to go on. So your belief system upholds the quid pro quo and then revels in punishing it, with no hope held of life being anything other than what it is. So in conclusion: You're holding humanity back with your beliefs, not the other way around as you so vehemently believe.
Conclusion: Already been a christian all my life, not goin back.
I have never been happier in my entire life, as I am now. It would take pages and pages for me to list all the reasons why, but in essence: I'm free of your 'world view'.
Thought I'd take a minute from my carefree life to explain to you what I see, as an athiest, and what you see as a christian.
Try as you might, to put yourself in my shoes for once please. I know you think that dropping god is an easy out, hence your statement,
but I would beg to differ. Highly. If anything not only do I have the weight of the world on my shoulders instead of gods, but now I too
have to worry about your world view staining every bit of my life that you can effect then dealing with your imp-unities in the process.
For Example:
You see an unrepentant murderer, I see the same. You see an evil soul destined for hell to be punished for his actions, I see a man whose done wrong in his life, yet there is nothing besides earthly justice for his crimes. What's done is done, I have peace in knowing that there's nothing that can be done besides look to the future and try to learn from the past. You on the other hand, watch him die by lethal injection with a sense of vindication knowing that he will be in hell for his actions. I see him die and cry because he was probably mentally ill or hurt so irreparably by someone else, that he became something incomprehensible. What's more is he's dying for a notion of "an eye for an eye", and in your bible it is not murder to kill a murderer for their crime.
I cry for him, and his victim, and I don't just stop there. I see hope that humanity can stop hurting one other one day by holding itself accountable, not in the next life but in this one. I hope that one day humanity can stop killing those that need the most study and understanding. I hope that mankind can stop fulfilling its' selfish want of retribution in order to bring light to what causes such evil in the first place, and avoiding it from continuing.
Yet at the time of this murderers' (justified in your eyes) death, you stop there, you brush your shoulders, and you move on. I don't forget, I can never forget, and I do everything in my power to help those who have been hurt so they won't hurt others, I fight mental illness in my own family and friends with as much conviction as you hold in your god assertion. I make a stand, in essence, with life--in hopes of improving it one person at a time. You have a passive at best attitude towards it that is the same attitude that allows these travesties to go on. So your belief system upholds the quid pro quo and then revels in punishing it, with no hope held of life being anything other than what it is. So in conclusion: You're holding humanity back with your beliefs, not the other way around as you so vehemently believe.
Conclusion: Already been a christian all my life, not goin back.
I have never been happier in my entire life, as I am now. It would take pages and pages for me to list all the reasons why, but in essence: I'm free of your 'world view'.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.
Dead wrong. The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.
Quote:Some people deserve hell.
I say again: No exceptions. Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it. As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.
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