(April 13, 2014 at 6:34 pm)professor Wrote: Coffee,
Satan and his minions are created beings. God has no dark side.
Robby, I gave you my best shot for answers. I don't have them all anyway.
"I give up" does not mean I join you in no man's land.
Tonus, before the Millennium gets here- earth gets the devil up close and in person.
Just warning you ahead of time.
People want a man to worship and they will get one.
Wether it falls apart in your minds or not- we are here and we need to make choices.
God is not looking to club us when we fall down.
The devil does that, not God.
You guys ARE tough.
There is nothing tough about it except that you are just making it tough on yourself.
We are just trying to give you a glimpse as to what your bubble looks like to the outside world. The reason that you find that uncomfortable is because you are starting to see the non-sensical nature of your construct. The discomfort you feel is cognitive dissonance which is also the motivating factor for you to try to make sense of things that are complete codswallop. When you start to examine your beliefs in an honest and unbiased way and hold your religious construct to the same standards that you would hold anything else to (i.e. the veracity of the claims in the Bible are to be tested by the same methods that you would use to test the claims in any other book, that is to say, not giving the Bible a free pass) you will find inevitably that your beliefs simply do not stand up to even a low level of scrutiny.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste -- don't pollute it with bullshit.