I Wonder How Good Fucking "God" Would Do If

[Brakeman]

I believe the teachings of Jesus, in particular the sermon on the mount, are for the most part beautiful, relevant and worth following.

Interesting, and telling too.

" Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
"poor in spirit" means to be "humble" and self-deprecating. Why would a god need people with low self-esteem? Oh yeah! the desperate ones! They are the most gullible for his lies about a non-existant heaven floating in the upper atmosphere of earth.


Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Again, jesus lies! They aren't going to be comforted as their loved one is really gone forever, never to be seen again. Even in god's story if you happen to care for one of the majority that is going to be on fire for all of eternity in hell, you will not be able to save that person you love, you'll actually hear his or her screams for all eternity. Some comfort!!


Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Yet again a blatant lie by jesus. In no way are the meek going to "inherit" anything. There is no time that they will be separated from the "not meek" in ether reality or in the fictional story. The meek and the confident follow the same history throughout the story. They never get to enjoy anything that was bequeathed to them by the confident of mankind.


Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Not true! The desire that all around us will be "righteous" or "morally good" will never be fulfilled because there is no heaven, and despite that, the heaven promised is not morally good when good men such as Richard Dawkins and myself go to hell for using the brain that we were born with, yet horrible murderers, thieves and tyrants get to go to heaven with the quickest of deathbed confessions.


Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy.
Horribly untrue. God is unmerciful to the extreme. If you don't follow his entrance rules exactly, he not only denies you entrance into his heaven club, he burns you alive for all eternity. One of god's men, Saul, was punished for showing mercy to his prisoners. So even in jesus' own story, he lied again.

Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Again, a bare-face lie by jesus. Nobody can see the imaginary sky daddy god, not even pure hearted sweet children. Even in the god story, everyone saved gets to see him in heaven, and according to your particular faith version, even the unsaved get to see him are they are judged. So there is no special segregation for the "pure in heart" so no way for them to be especially blessed in this regard.


Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
As you know, christians are among the most militant in society. They love their military and every chance to use it. Yet again this is a lie by jesus, as the world's real peacemakers rarely ever follow the commandments and the ultimatums of god. Try to be understanding and make peace with the homosexuals? Nope, cant do that, gotta kill them. Try and make peace with the muslims? Nope, can't do that, the bible says to kill them. Just WHO does the bible say to make peace with???


Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.


No floating sky heaven, no truth to this jesus claim. When you die, you rot, just like everyone else.

Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

Closing with another lie by jebus. There is no heaven, and no modern christian persecutions either, just a dishonest christian persecution complex.
There is no special treatment that gets given to a tortured christian verses a non-tortured christian. They get the same reward. Death (reality), or heaven.

So what is it among the silly trite sayings called the beatitudes that you continue to cling to? Do obvious lies really comfort you? Would it help if some of us on the forum lied to you about how all your dreams will someday come true? Or is it like I suspect, that you haven't ever critically analyzed the sermon?

More reading:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/hallq/2013/...the-mount/

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Now you might feel that if I do not believe In that particular aspect of the standard Christian canon I should not call myself a Christian. ..

Does that adequately answer you question?

No, it simply dodges the hard questions.. but anyway.. Lets reverse it for fun.

I believe that there is no god anywhere of any kind. I completely disrespect all forms of religion. I think that the ancient prophets and jesus were, if they existed at all, at best sheep and donkey rapists.
So would you judge me as amiss if I called myself a christian? Would you or your personal friends disagree with me? If I joined a christian forum, would anybody contest my claim, and if they did, would that be unusual?