RE: Enlighten Yourselves
March 17, 2015 at 12:59 am
(This post was last modified: March 17, 2015 at 1:25 am by WastedLife.)
I have read large chunks of the bad book and in fact it has been instrumental in me parting ways with the Christian religion. I was one of those attendees who would only read verses when the priest instructed us to so we could follow along with his sermon and so he would invariably cherry pick the nice sounding bits. I never knew how much murder, carnage, mayhem and hatred was in the book. Reading some of the passages I couldn't conceive of believing in a God (OT or NT) who would be party to those things.
What struck me from reading it was how limited the 'intelligence' within it is. I mean if it's the divine and inspired word of God I would expect it to reveal things we are only just discovering now. Things to do with physics, laws of nature and even actual prophesies. It's all so ham-fisted and vague. It's quite clearly written a long time after by people who didn't even know JC at the time. The other thing which struck me was why JC chose that time to reveal himself. Why are there not startlingly miraculous events happening now when we have the means and technology to record them? Oh that's right - because they never happened to begin with.
What struck me from reading it was how limited the 'intelligence' within it is. I mean if it's the divine and inspired word of God I would expect it to reveal things we are only just discovering now. Things to do with physics, laws of nature and even actual prophesies. It's all so ham-fisted and vague. It's quite clearly written a long time after by people who didn't even know JC at the time. The other thing which struck me was why JC chose that time to reveal himself. Why are there not startlingly miraculous events happening now when we have the means and technology to record them? Oh that's right - because they never happened to begin with.
I spent the best part of my life believing in an imaginary system which could absolve me from imaginary sin and not only that, by believing in the imaginary deity and taking up the imaginary offer of an imaginary eternal life I was offered the chance to live in an imaginary world up in the sky when I died. And what did I have to do to have all of this? Simple, I gave up using my real brain in my real life in this real world. F*cked up or what?
