c20 you are one sick f@*#, go see a doctor and get of this forum,
fahrenheit 451 said:lori 7 so an innocent babe that's to young to even contemplate christ, but has a heart defect and is about to die, because it was born a sinner, will go to hell, anybody who believes in a different religion will go to hell.
so basical anybody other than a xian is condemned to a eternity of suffering, just because they were born in a different country, or under a different banner to you.
your almost a nutty as c20.
Gravity said:The only difference between a cult and a religion is that the latter is older and has more followers and as a consequence seems less controversial because society has become used to it.
Period.
Gravity said:Nice. So if you were lucky enough to be born into a country/situation where you never hear about the Juedo-Christian God then you are ok? But if you do hear about it --- and don't *submit* - then you are screwed?! So your odds are better if you never are exposed to it?
Huh?
Try to put a bit of thought in that. It sounds like a bit of a ''set up''!
And of course, again . . . since Christians are the majority in America you see it as such a huge thing, but 2/3 of the people on this planet are NOT CHRISTIAN!
Bells said:But is God there? You wish to believe that God is there, then good for you. Blow a trumphet. But we don't believe God is there. Why? Because he has done nothing to prove his existence. He allows millions of people to die needlessly and does nothing. Now if God was there, then he must be one sick son of a bitch to sit back and watch as his innocent children suffer terrible pains and die horrible deaths at the hands of others and he does nothing to save them. Tell me something Lori, if your child was in danger, wouldn't you do something to save that child? I know I sure as hell would. Yet God, your God, does absolutely nothing. There's 'God is love' for you.
True, no one is the same. There are some Christians out there who cuddle rattle snakes and pray that they be saved, and if they don't get bitten enough times and manage to survive without the anti-venine, then they proclaim God's existance. If they get to point where they need the anti-venom, then God must be mad at them so they pray some more, forgetting the fact that by the time they actually don't fall sick and/or die from the bites, their bodies have probably developed it's own defence to the poison.
I don't believe what I don't see, as in I don't believe in things that do not exist. For example, I never believed that the WMD's existed when we invaded Iraq, and look looky there.. no WMD's. Imagine! Does that make me delusional? I believe the delusions would stem more from people who see things that aren't there, ie. Bush believing that there were WMD's in Iraq. Can you see where I'm going with this?
We are delusional because we don't believe in something or someone that does not exist? Ermm ok.. whatever you say...
backs away slowly... trying not to make eye contact...
There is? Where? Let me guess, you're going to claim that the earth, the trees, the animals, man, the mosquito bite on my leg.. they're all proof of God. Hmmm... one would think that if God existed he'd actually try and help and save people. Silly me. God is in heaven watching over us, but if you're being murdered, tortured, starved by man or nature, don't expect God to do anything to help you. He just likes to watch. Kind of perverted don't you think?
What makes you think that they are bowing down when they discuss "intelligent design theory"? Do you have proof of these toe licking moments? Do you even know what "intelligent design theory" is? And why would they call it God? There is no God. And your sarcasm at the mention of aliens is amusing. You don't discount God, but you discount other life-forms? Kind of selfish of you to think that your God created only you and your species and the animals and plants around you, don't you think? Hey, maybe that's why God does crap all for us... maybe he's too busy helping the aliens... his other children..
We don't need to prove it. We know how we have gotten to where we are. We already know of the process of evolution. We already know of the big bang theory... hell there's still evidence of that. If you want just one particular proof that there is no God, one only has to turn on the TV and look at the starving and dying millions of innocent people as proof. Loving God indeed...
Yes, and your proof of there is a God because the bible says so is such good and solid proof. And you're calling others delusional? Mmmm hmmm...
Gravity said:Listen Lori,
Its this easy ok? 2/3rds of the world are not Christian. If your loving God is sending that 2/3 of people to eternal torture - you worship an evil being. Fine! So what's the problem? You get what you want.
SnakeLord said:And to this I then ask what exactly it is you're repenting for. You have clearly stated here that you are actually guilty of nothing, other than being born human - which most certainly was not a choice on your part. You then state that the only way to be done with your inherent "defect" is to die, so again.. what are you repenting for right now? You have only done that which you have been born to do, and you most certainly cannot consider yourself guilty of sin as it is a natural and inherent part of being a human.
In summary: You are repenting for being born a human being, which is quite clearly daft. And then trying to justify people being tortured for eternity because they just so happened to have been born faulty.
You want an end to torture, but justify torture - you want an end to suffering, but justify suffering, and you want to be forgiven, but you have nothing to be forgiven for.
You truly come across as being lonely and lost. It is a big scary world, but there's no need to be ashamed of being you - and yet, that is exactly what you ask from the rest of us.
Gravity said:Ok - if ''he'' exists, and its true that "HE IS LOVE. LOVE...PURE AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE". Then I've got nothing to worry about. I'm a dedicated and loving parent, I give time to charities, deal honestly in my business dealing and in all other aspects of life . . . I think a supreme being that could be described as "HE IS LOVE. LOVE...PURE AND UNCONDITIONAL LOVE" would give me nothing to worry about. If thats *not* the case, then you may want to reconsider your use of the words ''love'', ''pure'' and especially "*unconditional*".
Think about those words before shooting off a pre-programmed reply.
Gravity said:Lori, are you actually C20? You both speak in circles. It was a very simple point. You said "He is love pure and unconditional" -- I say, if a loving, honest and giving person then gets tortured for eternity for not jumping through the 'right' hoops. Wheras a less loving, honest and giving person would get eternal bliss . . . for simply having jumped through the right hoops . . . those are not the actions of a being acting out of unconditional and pure love.
I don't understand what part of that simple logic is so difficult for you to understand?!
Gravity said:Good grief. Lori, I'm a reborn-reborn. I know EXACTLY what it feels like to just *know* that I know the truth about God. Just like you do. But I kept reading and thinking, and grew past it . . . into being even a more good an moral person. By that I mean I was no longer motivated by carrot and stick, by bribe and threat. Now I do good for other people because I love people, because I want to see our species do well, because I sleep better at night for it.
You keep talking as if you have some exclusive knowledge - all this "If you could have . . . " junk. I'VE BEEN THERE. And I'm certain your narrow little vision will rationalize this as "well, he COULDN'T have been a *REAL* believer, couldn't have been as devout and sincere as *ME*" -- and you'd likely be wrong. I traveled Europe with a Christian Performance/Witnessing group - we were an evangalistic musics/performance ministry. I believed very much in it.
Like I said though, I kept reading and thinking. Maybe all that damn reading and thinking was because of (use a loud and shrill mental voice for this) SATAAAAN?!
Anyways, what you just don't get is - we wouldn't even talk about this shit if you folks didn't feel the need to push it on us. Through laws or through witnessing to us. I think most non-theists are like myself. I could give a damn what idiocy you believe in. Just - as the song says ''keep your Jesus off my Penis, keep your Bible off my Balls, keep your cross of my walls and your beLIEfs out of my laws!"
http://jesuspenis.ericschwartz.com/media/video/JP_Full2.wmv
Gravity said:Lori - Your pretend ''love'' and care is shallow, transparent and silly. Your type always claims that its ''not for you to judge, only God'' -- but yet you are clearly judgemental.
I don't have to pretend to love you, or pretend not to be judgemental of you. I honestly believe that the biggest threat to my childrens future is people like you. You may be an unwitting pawn of organized religion . . . you may honestly believe you are doing the right thing. But I truly and passionately believe you are a tool of evil.
Me? I'll remain a minority in my country. Much like a religious person would have been under Stalin, or a Jew under Hitler. But I remain part of the majority of the human race - the 2/3rds of the world who are not Christian.
Lori_7 said:It is you who is a judgemental hypocrit. The way you speak, you sound like a pharisee yourself...straight out of the pew on a Sunday morning. I myself do not participate in organized religion, so you are speaking nonsense. You hear what you want to hear and you believe what you want to believe, whether there is a shred of evidence to support it or not...it doesn't matter. "Tool of evil"? lmao...paranoid much? You're definately a "church person" at heart...you've simply traded in one dogma for another...following this one as blindly as you did the last. You're a tool.
And oh, the martyr....like a Jew under Hitler huh? You poor poor paranoid thing you. Why don't you build yourself a bunker and stock pile some food, water, guns and ammo. But if you get bored or lonely or sad, you can always come out for a hug. *hug*
XOXO,
Lori