“It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.” Mark Twain

Friday, March 19, 2010

Now, and then..

If there is a point in life, then it has got to be basic happiness, survival by uniting with others like ourselves and doing as little as possible to make others unhappy. Isnt that exactly what religion should teach?
Can anyone name a reason that this would be a bad thing? I highly doubt it. Nevertheless, this basic humanitarian concept is completly lost to the christian nation with others following suit more or less. The idea that we will meet in the clouds, meet with our maker, and be happy for eternity sounds nice, and that the admision to the party is as simple as a prayer is even better. however, the fact that this gift of eternal joy is coupled with the punishment of eternal fire and damnation for those who dont accept damnation.

this is little more than emotinal blackmail, and with alot of churches, with their demand for money, can be taken as a hidden and well covered attempt at extortion. It is a horid idea that a person can go to Hell for simply niot believing that jesus was a miracle worker. It is even more lunacy to say that you need to believe this or god cant forgive you. Why am i not allowed the same privilage of being surprised when we get to heaven? Why am i not allowed to do my best with best and most godlike behavior that i can muster and be pleasntly surprised when i go anywhere?

This threat of absolute surrender is no different than a Gang coming up to some kid, telling them to join, and if he refuses they shoot his house or jump him. Does this behavior sound god like to you? do you honestly think that the god you worship actually care about that? doesnt he want us to be happy and productive?If this is how a god acts, then i hate to think how a demon can act.

The love that is given freely in the bible has long been forgotten, it has gone the way of all precepts of kindnesss that are not forgotten. the kindness and forgivness and the jesus that made mistakes, they were all forsaken and onkly the most arrogant and needy sides of him were left for us to read. The god of the bible is no more kind and loving than hitler, even hitler mention a reason for his blind hatred, something that god has failed to do to this date.

Where is the man that gave the "eight beatitudes"? Where is the man that gives mercy to those who need it? What happened to "whoever is without sin, cast the first stone. The man that taught kindness died on the cross, the man that came out of it, was a man that the world distorted, he became a monster, a vile person filled with a desire for more rage and bloodshed.
the prophecies that have been made of him are of little joy now, they pivot on either endless worship of god, or eternal punishment of you. there is no way that you personaly can win, so there is very little point.modern Christianity is nothing more than a scare tactic, and once that fear is ignored, it holds very little to keep its people satisfied. there is nothing to it, there are no benifits to it, they simply belive it to be true.


the ultimate goal fro a christian is to be a slave, and slavery is the exact oppisite of what the founders of judism wanted. god was their teacher, advisor, and father, and through his direction, if they followed, they were rewarded, they escaped slavery, they developed thier own rules and laws for worshiping, they were starving, but they were free. The god of the old testament was cruel, but he had a purpose, the god of the new testament is just simply a procrastinator of punishment, and jesus is used to avoid that punishment.

this is exactly what is taught, but when put in this light, does it sound like something that he would wanted said of him? would he want people to think of him only as a scape goat to avoid gods wrath? do you think that he wants to be known as a simple tool, or do you think that he would want you to respect the god who created you?would he want you to be happy to be alive and not worry about things like this? ask yourself, how do you want to be remembered?

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