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Originally Posted by Grace  I watched about 2 mins of the first vid. Its more than obvious that the maker has very little understanding of the new covenet, and what Christ has accomplished in his resurrection. Kill everyone who works at walmart on Sundays?? WOW, talk about willful ignorance. | Its so easy to say the maker has little understanding of something, it is tyoical of the religious belever just dismiss any concept without enetering into a dialogue.
You persist in believing in something you've no real understanding of at all other then the rather conceited position that your God waited about 144,000 years to reveal itself to humanity (humanity has been around for 150,000 years or there abouts) and then it decided to reveal itself to semi literate ancient nomads who existed in a remote region of what we call the Middle East and only to these people, he then waited another 4000 years before sending his 'son' to bring a new covenent and redeem us all. The illogic of it is so astounding words cannot describe it. Yet you believe it because signs, many of which aren't actually predicted in the old covenent, came about, one of the signs being riding a donkey. And yet from my perspective you are so lacking in self respect and respect for humanity that you believe this despite all evidence and logic to the contrary. Its true faith is not based in evidence which should automatically make any intelligent person sit up and take notice, yet intelligent people still persist in the belief because they lack hope and fear death. yet find hope in the ramblings of semi literate ancient parochials from the an obscure section of the Middle East. And to them its all logical. We've always made gods and praised them, they evolve with us, as we find out more about the world our gods change and your god will change too. Not of course in our lifetime but he has changed since the bible was first written you just don't want god to have changed.
But there is more not only did god wait this long to reveal itself but belief in it manifests itself in a rather self centered ego driven logic. That the creator not only made mankind the center of the entire universe and made all things for mankind but at the same time requires servility and praise and a god so bored it actually cares what you eat, drink and when and who you have sex with. Its all so evil and pathetic. What sort of creator is so approximate and cruel that it waited so many years to reveal itself?? Whats more why did it make snot?? I mean do we really need snot???
Mans tryanny over man and tyranny over the minds of men has been born continuously in religion and belief in something magical beyond our world. Yet religion is now forced to compete in the world of ideas and as we learn more we believe less which just makes some people really crazy and or angry and more miltant, either directly militant or seek to impose their views thriough the secular world.
In the end I feel sorry for believers they don't live life for the sake of life but for the sake of their own death in the hope that they will be redeemed. Its really very sad. Life is worth living beyond the desire of what happens to you after death. |