Checking in

[Bad Writer]

Whitey has landed. So happy to stumble into a place to share thoughts. Most of my family and friends (mostly Mormons) are just too far gone to even bring up atheist concepts, or at least so it seems to me. So for some time I have felt somewhat stifled.

Then welcome to the club. I'm also an ex-Mormon, and though only my father has since left the Church too, he's still got some ass-backwards ideas about this world. No other family members will even approach me on the subject of religion because they fear for their "testimonies". I can't make this shit up.

1 if you believe life is eternal and that life on earth is the test which determines how you spend the rest, well hell, if you draw an infinitely long line representing all of that, the test portion of the line is so small as to not exist. How can that be the plan of a smart and just god?

Truly the question is: What plan? What god? If this god is supposed to be so perfect, and yet the plan has obvious flaws or absurdities, then obviously it was fashioned by beings that were not so perfect, i.e., humans.

2 Who set up the rules ie. if you "sin" you have to pay a "fine" and just exactly what is a sin, and just exactly what are the fines for the various sins, and (with Christians) that some ONE can pay all of your fines? Are these thought to be just a part of the fabric of the universe, like gravity, or...?

I've heard it explained that sin, to the religious, is like drops of blood that little by little stain your white clothes. Jesus Christ apparently washes your clothes with his own blood that he spilled when atoning for the sins of mankind. This analogy fails for obvious reasons, but I trust most here are smarter than the average creatard, so it shouldn't be hard to point out the flaws here.