Abusive Theology 101

[freedomfromforum]

Today I was talking with a homeless man in my neighborhood. I’ve known this man for a few months, and on occasion I have given him food (never cash). I have sat with him on several occasions to keep him company and to listen to him tell his life story. This guy makes no effort to hide his christian association, and in fact he often uses it to pull on the heartstrings of other gullible people (christians), and gets them to give him cash or anything else he can swindle from them. I notice that the “christians” never sit and talk with him, hmmmmm?

Today he asked me for food after telling me that I was hell bound for being born a sinner, and for turning my back on Jesus (I am atheist). I told him “No problem, I‘ll feed you”, and I invited him over for a steak and lobster dinner which I promised I would freely give to him. I told him I had a room in my home prepared for him, and that he could feast, and live in comfort and luxury for all of his days. He was very excited!

I told him to come by around 6:00PM and to be prepared to worship me if he expected to get what I had promised him. He seemed perplexed. He then asked, “Why would you withhold what you’ve promised me unless I agree with your ideas, and do as you say?” I responded, “Because you arrive at my door defiled and deserving death”. He said I was being violent toward him because of my gross mischaracterization of him, and he demanded to know what gave me the right to ask him to perform as I dictated, and to judge him as worthy of death. He then cursed me out for dangling a proverbial carrot in front of his face (my promise of paradise), and he then proceeded to list my many sins. I guess you could say that he didn’t like my theology.

How ironic that he stumbled away unaware of what had just happened to him, and how sad that I will now have to eat another lobster tail with my second fillet. Tisk, tisk.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Nice one. I loves me a good parable, I does.

Boru

[freedomfromforum]

[quote='BrianSoddingBoru4' pid='487564' dateline='1375483090']
Nice one. I loves me a good parable, I does.

Boru
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Thanks Boru. I should add that I was not entirely cruel, and that I did return to him afterward, and gave him a sandwich (which he ate while cursing me to eternal hell). Maybe he was mad that it wasn't a lobster sandwich.

[Neo-Scholastic]

You get a homeless man all excited about his good fortune, then take it away because he will not violate his firmly held convictions. Then you brag about it as if you were clever. No . You're just an asshole.

[freedomfromforum]

Thanks for the feedback Chad. And thanks for missing the point, and for the judgment. I never asked him to violate his firmly held beliefs, I
was merely demonstrating the idiocy of them. If you only have harsh words then scream them into the mirror. I have fed this bum for months.

[freedomfromforum]

Chad the theist wrote

"You get a (homeless) man all excited about his good fortune, then take it away because he will not violate his firmly held convictions. Then you brag about it as if you were clever. No . You're just an asshole."

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Tell me Chad, how do I differ from your god? I've made the same offer as it supposedly did to me (us). Your god says "I'll give you paradise if you'll violate your firmly held convictions", and if we don't we're damned, and your god brags about it. Nice god you serve. I expect theists to react as you did. Nice christian love on the name calling BTW.

[Foxaèr]

You get a homeless man all excited about his good fortune, then take it away because he will not violate his firmly held convictions. Then you brag about it as if you were clever. No . You're just an asshole.

And you missed the point, just as the homeless man did.

[Captain Colostomy]

Delusions of persecution, and good acting, helps garner the sympathy vote.

FFF...check your liquor cabinet. Bums. Just sayin'.

[freedomfromforum]

Delusions of persecution, and good acting, helps garner the sympathy vote.

FFF...check your liquor cabinet. Bums. Just sayin'.

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@Captain Colostomy... True on all counts, and as for the liquor cabinet, it has been dry for many years.

[Godscreated]

Today's new moral standard at work, two wrongs make a right. What's up with that, do you think by feeding this guy on occasion and talked to him a few times you did something earth shattering. There are Christian organizations that feed, cloth and shelter the homeless everyday, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year for years on end. They spend time with these people talking to them and listening to their stories every day, and never throw them a bone on a string, they love them, these people serve with little to no pay and why because they have a love for these people. Will you help this man like this every day for the next ten years, or do you find that your bone trick is the more pleasing way for you. Just remember you're not that far away from his shoes, you might think you're fine, but so have many of the homeless before they became homeless.

Here's what your version of God's attitude would be. You die, go before God and He says oh you're the one who on occasion feed the homeless man and talked to him. Well I guess you deserve a place in paradise, move right this way for your wings please so you can go to your mansion on a planet I made just for you. You then see God push a button the door under your feet opens and you see the homeless man waving by as you fall towards . In reality if you find yourself before God the Father it want be anything like this.