RE: Why hate Athiest?
March 10, 2013 at 2:42 pm
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2013 at 2:52 pm by Angrboda.)
(March 10, 2013 at 1:50 pm)jstrodel Wrote:Quote:And how is "having the holy spirit" any different from a subjective declaration of "true" Christian or not?
Being born again is a spiritual experience in which people are grafted into God and they become a new person. God changes their desires and they receive grace and power from God in order to live a Holy life. God speaks to people and directs them and does miracles in their lives. This is the normal way that Christianity works.
No, this is how you want it to work, so that you don't have to do any heavy lifting. You have historically looked for an "easy out" from complex and difficult realities. First it was drugs, which offered an easy out, and now you've adopted a theology which also promises an easy out; you just wave your stick figure God in the air, and suddenly you're a different person. Not happening. You were an asshole before you turned to Christ, and you're still an asshole with Christ; you haven't changed. You've simply changed how you express the flaws of your character. (Come to think of it, your vapid generalizations of "atheist this" and "atheist that" are simply another side of it. Instead of coming to terms with the variety among atheists, their complex and sometimes inconsistent motivations, and their existence as human beings first and atheists second, you've created a paper cutout that's infinitely more simple to deal with than the grungy, detailed reality of these people. Everywhere you turn, you substitute a simple lie for the complex truth, because you don't like complex, difficult truths. You prefer the simple lie, whether that's a drug induced bliss or a Christ who does all the work for you so you don't have to do any of it yourself. It's the same thing.) You've just adopted a conveniently self-serving fable so you can excuse yourself from having to do the necessary work of changing your character.
(Watching your posts around this forum, the term that kept coming back to mind was that you show all the hallmarks of a dry drunk. The drugs are gone, but the thinking and behaviors remain. You've just found a religion which offers you a way to deny that. But denial doesn't lead to sobriety; it only leads to deeper and deeper denial. "[A]s one wise old drunk put it, if a horse thief goes into A.A. what you can end up with is a sober horse thief.")
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