I am taking over the mortgage on my parents house here in TN. They are moving back to FL in July, and I'm going to move into their house when they leave.
I had to come over before work this morning to take care of some paperwork and other stuff, and I am eating breakfast before taking off for work. They are watching church on TV, which is apparently a new thing. Dr. Charles Stanley is the guy's name. I am eating my Cream of Wheat and listening to this man preach some of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. It's been over 15 years since I've set foot in a church. It was a bit of a shock.
The whole point of this sermon is that wavering faith is the reason Jesus doesn't do stuff for you. That a person whose faith is 'continuously waivering' is not doing Christianity right. Somehow, natural skepticism and reasoning is being vilified. I know in my head this is the kind of thing people believe. But, for the life of me, I cannot understand why as soon as this buffoon says "Reasoning oftentimes doesn't work with God, he is above all that," there isn't a mass exodus out of the super-mega-church complex. BAH!!!
I had to come over before work this morning to take care of some paperwork and other stuff, and I am eating breakfast before taking off for work. They are watching church on TV, which is apparently a new thing. Dr. Charles Stanley is the guy's name. I am eating my Cream of Wheat and listening to this man preach some of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. It's been over 15 years since I've set foot in a church. It was a bit of a shock.
The whole point of this sermon is that wavering faith is the reason Jesus doesn't do stuff for you. That a person whose faith is 'continuously waivering' is not doing Christianity right. Somehow, natural skepticism and reasoning is being vilified. I know in my head this is the kind of thing people believe. But, for the life of me, I cannot understand why as soon as this buffoon says "Reasoning oftentimes doesn't work with God, he is above all that," there isn't a mass exodus out of the super-mega-church complex. BAH!!!
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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