RE: Ask a Traditional Catholic
June 30, 2015 at 11:52 pm
(This post was last modified: June 30, 2015 at 11:53 pm by Randy Carson.)
(June 30, 2015 at 11:36 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote:(June 30, 2015 at 11:15 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Your mind is twisted....darkened, really. You cannot see verses such as:
I appreciate the confirmation on your wealth of intellectual dishonesty. Well done.
Intellectually dishonest?
Quote:(June 30, 2015 at 11:15 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: Bull. What they needed was to know that God loves them and that the people who had abused certain passages or concepts were wrong. But you couldn't tell them that God loves them because you don't know that God loves you.
I've heard your story that many people in this forum have been hurt by other Christians, have had bad experiences, etc. I'm very sorry that happened. But what ALL of those folks need is not less God but less man and MORE GOD. God is love. Only God can heal these hurts.
Except your sky daddy is only love if you understand him is just the right way. And any variation in that understanding is considered heresy which apparently in a whirlwind of love, a person should be drowned mafia style.
You love to twist everything to bring it back around to how Christianity is evil, don't you?
Quote:Tone down the preaching, Randy. Nobody wants to hear it. If that's all you have, then you've exhausted your attempts at reasoned argument and have settled on pulpit pot shots. Your god is only love about 10% of the time. For every one of those verses about love, I could pop off 10 which describe the hate mongering, fear mongering jackass that is described by your Bible.
Of course you could, Mike. Of course you could. And that's what the Bible is all about, right? That's the ENTIRE point of the whole Bible...the whole 3,000+ years of Judeo-Christian history is to show how God is an evil being.
Quote:I won't waste my time or breath though, because it doesn't exist. It is a story you tell yourself to feel more secure about your place in the cosmos. If you need that, fine. But I don't. I am happy, connected, and secure. I enjoy fulfilling relationships. I practice empathy and connect with others. I seek to rectify my ideas and align them most closely with what can be shown to be, not what a book written by bronze age goat herders and the medieval scribes who modified it to fit their whims.
Oh, and I just feel the warmth and empathy oozing from your posts since the day I joined the forum. Being God-free has been so liberating for you!
Quote:(June 30, 2015 at 11:15 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: I leave you to God's mercy, Mike, but you saw the verse. Leading others astray is something that God takes very seriously, apparently.
I bet you do, Randy. You know what the ultimate irony is? You caterwauling about how people who use fear to subjugate others is not what your religion is all about, and in the very same post you do threaten me with your god's wrath for leading people astray, alongside your "understanding" about people who believe differently being killed for doing so. But it's not about fear at all, is it?
It's a two-edged sword, Mike. You can stare at the judgment of God and shake your fist at Him for His just punishments (good luck with that) or you can stare at His cross and thank Him for dying so you don't have to.
