While everything exists for a reason, it is up to us to make our own reason. To become slaves to a mythology takes that opportunity away. You have surrendered to a mythology created by man, and you are a slave to that ideology. You cannot imaging making a choice outside of that command set.
For example, it is Ramadan and Yom Kippur, and it is 1pm in the afternnon, and we are alone together in a hotel room, and there are a couple of ham and cheese sandwhiches just begging to be eaten. If I do not eat it simply because of a storybook where a bronze age deity supposedly told some slaves in the desert that the person who does so would be case out from His special nation, then I am not thinking rationally, but I am responding to fear and dead of what some silent supernatural being might do after I die.
So I would eat it, not as much because of the hunger, but to prove to you that there is no God to punish you. Just as a challenge.
Would you have that same power to take a stand for yourself and eat that sandwhich, or would you leave and go back to your master? After all, it's just a story made up by someone you never met.
The power is never in surrendering. The power has aways been in breaking free.
For example, it is Ramadan and Yom Kippur, and it is 1pm in the afternnon, and we are alone together in a hotel room, and there are a couple of ham and cheese sandwhiches just begging to be eaten. If I do not eat it simply because of a storybook where a bronze age deity supposedly told some slaves in the desert that the person who does so would be case out from His special nation, then I am not thinking rationally, but I am responding to fear and dead of what some silent supernatural being might do after I die.
So I would eat it, not as much because of the hunger, but to prove to you that there is no God to punish you. Just as a challenge.
Would you have that same power to take a stand for yourself and eat that sandwhich, or would you leave and go back to your master? After all, it's just a story made up by someone you never met.
The power is never in surrendering. The power has aways been in breaking free.
“I've done everything the Bible says — even the stuff that contradicts the other stuff!"— Ned Flanders