RE: When do you plan to Convert to Christanity?
January 29, 2013 at 9:02 am
(This post was last modified: January 29, 2013 at 9:26 am by catfish.)
(January 29, 2013 at 6:52 am)missluckie26 Wrote: 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'.
And that folks, is what a True Christian™ would say in my humble opinion...
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And for the record, the OP is a stupid loaded question and there's no way in Hades I'm going to convert to some bastardised, paganised, exclusionary, divisive POS belief system that's being passed off as "Christianity".
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(January 28, 2013 at 11:51 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:sw
(January 28, 2013 at 9:49 pm)Christian Wrote: I am a Christian.
I just noticed somebody edited the poll choices. Why? Is that allowed?
Yes, if you happen to be on staff and the poll choices insufficiently cover the possible answers. (Yes it was I who edited it.)
Where's the option for "I already am one"?
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