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Is it strange that I want there to be a God ?
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I always hold some hope for a free afterlife. One where i can continue learning and growing. Instead of just rotting away. Which is fine too, i guess, it's a form of comfort, but i value knowlage and suffering over comfort. I hope my death will test me, rather than give me an easy way out. I don't really care if there's a god though. As long as I'm not forced to pay for percieved sins or brainwashed into worship I couldn't give less of a shit.
This is stupid
 (March 25, 2013 at 2:54 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: I always hold some hope for a free afterlife. One where i can continue learning and growing. Instead of just rotting away. Which is fine too, i guess, it's a form of comfort, but i value knowlage and suffering over comfort. I hope my death will test me, rather than give me an easy way out. I don't really care if there's a god though. As long as I'm not forced to pay for percieved sins or brainwashed into worship I couldn't give less of a shit. the thought of a God of judgment sucks, don't it?
"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
 (March 25, 2013 at 3:36 pm)junkyardboy Wrote: the thought of a God of judgment sucks, don't it?Depends on how harsh of a judge he is. The god of the bible is has unrealistic expectations. John Adams Wrote:The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion. (March 25, 2013 at 3:39 pm)Darkstar Wrote:(March 25, 2013 at 3:36 pm)junkyardboy Wrote: the thought of a God of judgment sucks, don't it?Depends on how harsh of a judge he is. The god of the bible is has unrealistic expectations. the wages of sin is death all die harsh enough? what happens after that you will have to convince yourself
"This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
I don't think anyone has the right to judge our time as human beings in the afterlife. Unless you did it based on individual circumstances rather than an absolute moral ruling.
This is stupid
 (March 25, 2013 at 3:36 pm)junkyardboy Wrote:(March 25, 2013 at 2:54 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: I always hold some hope for a free afterlife. One where i can continue learning and growing. Instead of just rotting away. Which is fine too, i guess, it's a form of comfort, but i value knowlage and suffering over comfort. I hope my death will test me, rather than give me an easy way out. I don't really care if there's a god though. As long as I'm not forced to pay for percieved sins or brainwashed into worship I couldn't give less of a shit.I'll ignore your poor grammar. If God judged people on their "Christianess", that is, how well they followed the bible, everyone would be going to hell, unless they were superhuman/evil.
"I trust my own reason and my own capacities to think and educate myself and to reach greater levels of knowlege and status through learning and work. To me, wishing for a god is like wishing to be a slave, it is like declaring that one is too incompetent to handle one's own affairs." - the germans are coming
 (February 18, 2013 at 5:53 am)pop_punks_not_dead Wrote: I know this sounds dumb,I am an atheist, but part of me still wants to have some form of belief, that there is a God out there and there is more to existence than this life I have been dumped with. Wanting a god and wanting a particular type of god are entirely different things. How about wanting a pantheon? Perhaps better a warring pantheon so they are preoccupied with each other and leave us alone. To narrow your choice only monotheism is used as a cause for war although the frequency of wars does not appear to differ for polytheists. 
The following is an exchange in the Modern Masters: Arthur Adams series of magazines on comic book artists:
Interviewer: If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates? Adams: Oh my goodness. [laughs] Well, I don't believe in any particular god, but if there is one, what would I like to hear God say? "Yes, you can do it all again." I like that answer.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould |
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