RE: Hostage to fear
June 17, 2015 at 12:41 pm
(This post was last modified: June 17, 2015 at 12:42 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Fear very often -is- entirely irrational. Knowing that doesn't make it less fearful. That mostly has to do with fear being an actual thing, an electro-chemical cocktail with effects which do not depend upon your knowledge of them -or- their nature. Fear is autonomous.
There's no reason that your god can't be the being that you want him to be, btw. I don't see the holdup, the gods you've heard about are all the way they are because -someone- wanted them to be that way....yours wouldn't be any different on that count.
Preach a hippy christ to your family, man. Preach a hell-less afterlife. I don't really think that the church can be given credit for your families happiness...but if that -is- the case then maybe you should work to tip the scales....maybe- you- should endeavor to bring more happiness to your family? Truth be told...you can;t really keep the church in any of their lives in any case. They could just fall away (as many do) and if the church is their source of happiness...then what? You can;t do anything about that potentiality, but you can at least bring some other source of happiness into their lives to hedge against the fear which clearly consumes your thoughts on this issue.
There's no reason that your god can't be the being that you want him to be, btw. I don't see the holdup, the gods you've heard about are all the way they are because -someone- wanted them to be that way....yours wouldn't be any different on that count.
Preach a hippy christ to your family, man. Preach a hell-less afterlife. I don't really think that the church can be given credit for your families happiness...but if that -is- the case then maybe you should work to tip the scales....maybe- you- should endeavor to bring more happiness to your family? Truth be told...you can;t really keep the church in any of their lives in any case. They could just fall away (as many do) and if the church is their source of happiness...then what? You can;t do anything about that potentiality, but you can at least bring some other source of happiness into their lives to hedge against the fear which clearly consumes your thoughts on this issue.
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