RE: New Atheist, depressed, and wondering how to cope with reality.
January 23, 2015 at 8:44 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2015 at 8:46 pm by Creed of Heresy.)
(January 14, 2015 at 3:36 pm)IanHulett Wrote: So, now instead of seeing Jesus as the savior and son of God, I see him as a teacher of good morals
Nnnuuuuu, he was nooot. *vehemently shakes head. Imagine it now. Good. Yes. I am that pretty.(1)*
He went around forgiving crimes and injustices committed by others towards others in his own name. That would imply he himself felt he was the wronged party, and the actually wronged parties' were not a consideration.
If morality (a subjective thing, sure, but I'm sure we can agree to a far extent on some of the necessities of good moral values) entails fairness and justice, he was immoral by way of ensuring no justice was done to the wronged parties. Additionally, he was also a liar by telling his apostles that he had cured the sick and infirm and the blind and so forth, or had his apostles make those claims for him to others.
There is also an instance in which he is eating with a poor family and they had this urn of a very expensive perfume that was going to be used for some other important thing they were going to do, and he had convinced them he was the son of god; someone in the home, without the permission of the others, dumped the perfume upon him, and when the others expressed outrage, he basically said "you can always get more perfume, but you will only have one me." In other words he was completely apathetic to their poverty and limited possessions because he was so up his own ass that he felt himself superior to their interests and plans.
Then there's the whole thing where he proudly stated that he intended to bring war and strife and division in his own name. He cared not if war and strife hurt others, as long as it was in his own name.
He was a narcissistic jerk, a liar, and an arrogant toad. Bible thumping delusionists proclaim this all to be totally justified because he was the son of god but those of us who do not believe in god or Hay-seuss's self-proclaimed divinity and unwarranted self-importance see it for what it is; the selfish acts of a selfish jag-on.
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Also, how pervasive is your depression? Is it a constant? Also, if your girlfriend dumps you because you're an atheist now, then she's not worth having in your life, anyways. If she cannot accept you for you, then, as Haddaway put it...
"WHAT IS LOVE! BABY DON'T HURT ME, DON'T HURT ME, NO MORE!"
