The last time I started a thread on this site I was pretty much picking a fight in that I asked anyone and everyone to sell me christianity, or religion in general. You all failed and I was very disappointed. But I'm back, my faith in all of you is restored and I'm ready to pick another fight.
Ima cut right to the chase. I don't much about anything, but I do know what I see with my own eyes, and what I see is a bunch of folks arguing over the validity of book that was written thousands of years ago. And what of the original copy of this book? I don't think there is one. And what of the original authors? Wheless I believe wrote that the book of Luke was actually written by Mark and that Nazareth didn't actually exist until after Jesus was dead. Not that I have much of an appreciation for Wheless, I think he was just as pompous, bombastic and long winded as the folks who wrote the bible, but I'm mostly saying that to enflame the intolerant souls of those who claim to be "saved".
Saved from what may I ask? An eternal hell? A place of fire and brimstone where "sinners" burn for eons because they chose not God but themselves? It's a convenient device. Believe or go to hell. Nice. And how do we know hell exists? Because a 2,000 year old book said so! Nice again! It's so silly it's mind boggling. It's easy to understand how people buy into it. People need answers. They're scared of death, they enjoy being slaves to a system because they're too weak to believe that the world really is what you make of it. So scare them with hell and Satan, keep them on their toes, keep them examining themselves and they'll never examine anything else. It works. Bravo. As soon as I'm done typing, all of you christians get a golfer's clap.
I really did clap too.
So y'all believe in an ancient book. Fairly primitive guys. 2,000 years and none of your scholars agree on anything. 2,000 years and how many different sects have arisen? How many churches live in hostility towards one another? How many churches would refuse to sit down and eat your sacrements together because they disagree on some insignificant point in your highly convoluted practice of god worship? 2,000 years and how many inquisitions, witch burnings, alienations and atrocities? 2,000 years and y'all still don't agree, y'all still don't have it right, y'all just don't know what you're talking about. My question is: how much longer will it take for christianity to finally get it right? I mean, the bible says something like (I'm paraphrasing, don't get all ticked off or nothin') the number of believers will be as the sands of the shore, something like that right? Well in that case I guess christianity can take as long as it wants, which is almost as convenient as hell and satan.
I guess my overall point is, christianity is obsolete, the bible is good for nothing more than moral truths that even non-christians can get right, and y'all need to move on. I believe in God, but I think it's a much bigger thing than christianity can encompass. Christianity is empty, rote, antiquated and useless, unless of course you want to control people, in which case I've seen it work flawlessly. It's a darned book, an old one at that. You don't have an original, you can't prove that it was written by who you said it was written by, you can't prove that what it says is true, you can't prove hell, you can't prove satan, you can't prove heaven, yet you tell everyone not to believe what they can demonstrate with their five senses and to follow blindly the rantings of a book that you weren't even there to see get written.
It's foolishness, it's madness, and I think it's sick, twisted and is propagated by no one else but the sick of mind, control freaks, and weakling masses who crave answers and are provided them by those who are on power trips.
Forgive my venom.
The fight has been picked.
I can't wait.
Ima cut right to the chase. I don't much about anything, but I do know what I see with my own eyes, and what I see is a bunch of folks arguing over the validity of book that was written thousands of years ago. And what of the original copy of this book? I don't think there is one. And what of the original authors? Wheless I believe wrote that the book of Luke was actually written by Mark and that Nazareth didn't actually exist until after Jesus was dead. Not that I have much of an appreciation for Wheless, I think he was just as pompous, bombastic and long winded as the folks who wrote the bible, but I'm mostly saying that to enflame the intolerant souls of those who claim to be "saved".
Saved from what may I ask? An eternal hell? A place of fire and brimstone where "sinners" burn for eons because they chose not God but themselves? It's a convenient device. Believe or go to hell. Nice. And how do we know hell exists? Because a 2,000 year old book said so! Nice again! It's so silly it's mind boggling. It's easy to understand how people buy into it. People need answers. They're scared of death, they enjoy being slaves to a system because they're too weak to believe that the world really is what you make of it. So scare them with hell and Satan, keep them on their toes, keep them examining themselves and they'll never examine anything else. It works. Bravo. As soon as I'm done typing, all of you christians get a golfer's clap.
I really did clap too.
So y'all believe in an ancient book. Fairly primitive guys. 2,000 years and none of your scholars agree on anything. 2,000 years and how many different sects have arisen? How many churches live in hostility towards one another? How many churches would refuse to sit down and eat your sacrements together because they disagree on some insignificant point in your highly convoluted practice of god worship? 2,000 years and how many inquisitions, witch burnings, alienations and atrocities? 2,000 years and y'all still don't agree, y'all still don't have it right, y'all just don't know what you're talking about. My question is: how much longer will it take for christianity to finally get it right? I mean, the bible says something like (I'm paraphrasing, don't get all ticked off or nothin') the number of believers will be as the sands of the shore, something like that right? Well in that case I guess christianity can take as long as it wants, which is almost as convenient as hell and satan.
I guess my overall point is, christianity is obsolete, the bible is good for nothing more than moral truths that even non-christians can get right, and y'all need to move on. I believe in God, but I think it's a much bigger thing than christianity can encompass. Christianity is empty, rote, antiquated and useless, unless of course you want to control people, in which case I've seen it work flawlessly. It's a darned book, an old one at that. You don't have an original, you can't prove that it was written by who you said it was written by, you can't prove that what it says is true, you can't prove hell, you can't prove satan, you can't prove heaven, yet you tell everyone not to believe what they can demonstrate with their five senses and to follow blindly the rantings of a book that you weren't even there to see get written.
It's foolishness, it's madness, and I think it's sick, twisted and is propagated by no one else but the sick of mind, control freaks, and weakling masses who crave answers and are provided them by those who are on power trips.
Forgive my venom.
The fight has been picked.
I can't wait.
