RE: God is the great spirit friend
March 24, 2013 at 11:46 pm
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2013 at 11:49 pm by Mystical.)
I am going to say yes. I was the squeakiest clean Christian girl for appx 6yrs until I decided he wasn't there. I'm still squeakishly clean. Squeakish. I just don't feel guilty when I masturbate, really. That's about the biggest difference I can think of from then to now. Let me show you what I mean by squeaky clean: I didn't have sex, period. I prayed every day, assured those suffering around me with his platitudes constantly, converted many of my own athiest family members into believing in god because I was so one tracked on god in the face of death over and over again. I set aside my well being for others, I gave every cent I had to people who needed it. I forgave the second I was wronged. It "hurt my spirit" to hear cussing and to see Bill Mahr on the television. I prayed every day and every night and guess what? When I stopped praying and started doing things: life stopped persecuting me and I used my brainpower not to conspiratize an entire unseen belief system onto my life--but to figure out how to better my life without waiting for god to re arrange all of the fabric of space to accomodate me.
Have I seen god or evidence for him? No. Did I assume that any good thing that happened in my life was god? Yes.
Problem is, bad shit has a tendency to bring you down to earth out of that cloud. The moment I was dying in a hospital bed and realized that I was truly alone: that was the moment the god thought died.
Would you define refusing chemotherapy in order to let god "do his work" on my body, all in? Cuz if so, I was all in.
Have I seen god or evidence for him? No. Did I assume that any good thing that happened in my life was god? Yes.
Problem is, bad shit has a tendency to bring you down to earth out of that cloud. The moment I was dying in a hospital bed and realized that I was truly alone: that was the moment the god thought died.
Would you define refusing chemotherapy in order to let god "do his work" on my body, all in? Cuz if so, I was all in.
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.