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I'm the oddball Atheist who wholeheartedly believes that without Christian faith and values the US is fucking doomed.
I'm riding those coat-tails!
Hell, it's basic Christian values that allow me to not believe in their God. They're not supposed to force me to believe, just make the materials available and try to educate my ignorant ass into believing.
Thus far, God ain't sent the right person.
I've been chided on not understanding Faith, but do recall Thomas needed extra proof too.
After a manner, I admire Faith. God is basically saying, "ignore all that evidence and believe in Me and you will be rewarded." Except Thomas. Thomas I will give evidence.
If God spoke to you and you believe, I will not stop you and do very little to make fun of you outside of calling Him your invisible friend. Note that I capitalize Christian, and God's pronouns in addition to calling it Faith rather than faith. I really ain't shitting on you.
And the only reason I'm even as mildly offensive about it as I am is because of the wrong person being sent to convince me to subjugate myself to Massa and be a willing slave of God.
Being born free and having free will, no slavery for me thankyouverymuch!
If God's not selling being a slave, then His sales people REALLY dropped the ball with their pitch. But it wasn't just the one person proselytizing at my door or at my gaming table who fucked that up. I stopped counting.
You wanna try your luck?
Bear in mind that as a Hot Rodder I've seen more evidence of animism from working on cars than I've ever seen of the divine Christian spark. You'll be battling uphill.
But I am not here to convince you that you're wrong! Please don't let me.
A slave sounds bad to me, but I can see why some would say it that way. I like to think of God as the Father and us as his children. It makes more sense to me that way. As his children he wants us to follow his morals and values. He may be disappointed with our actions or choices but still loves us. Which is why Jesus gives everyone a second chance no matter how much they sinned. A friend says, "God wants you back." Like you said it is up to us to try and live his way or chose our own.
ReplyDeleteMike B
I spent most of my life as a firm agnostic/atheist, Angus. I’ve stood in your shoes. Almost against my will, I’ve taken up the faith. God doesn’t talk to me or through me. I don’t have epiphanies or visitations from angels. But I can feel the presence of my Maker at times and it’s enough. I am not a gifted evangelist.
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you have an enquiring mind though. Faith relies on trust… and currently there just isn’t enough of that to go around to make it easy on guys like us. Most of the churches have fallen. Seek it, and maybe you will find it.Nobody can do the leg work for you.