The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Faith
July 7, 2019 in Religion | Tags: Faith, Religion, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice | by The Arbourist
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July 7, 2019 at 9:17 am
Steve Ruis
The idiocy of “god is testing you” rolls on. Do people never ask why such a test would be given them? What would god want to learn from such a test that it doesn’t already know? Many people pt such test at the feet of Satan … hello? Satan is just an extension of this god and it doesn’t answer the question of “why?” Does this all-knowing god not know how you will do on your test? If not, then it isn’t all-knowing.
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July 7, 2019 at 10:55 am
Jesus
According to the Bible, God insists people have free will. This is why your world is a racist concentration camp on the brink of destruction.
(The Bible also says God will stop you from destroying the world in the 6th MEE. But once you pull the trigger, your world is no longer yours. ‘The Day of the Lord’ is really ‘the Day the Earth Stood Still.’ — That’s why the UFOs are here!)
God allows people to do evil: to eat from the tree of knowledge and choose what is wrong over what is right; to choose self-interest at the expense of others.
“The Lord comes like a thief in the night.” This means God allows people to indulge in corruption and violence in the shadows where they think their acts are not seen. Many think they’ll take a big pile of debts with them into the void, after having lived large, thumbing their noses on the way out.
They will not be taking their mountain of fool’s gold with them. This is already known. But they will take their mountain of debts.
They will be held account to their debts just like they would hold others to account. They will be judged by their own fierce judgments. They will have it meted out to them as they have meted out to others.
They will be exposed, naked, before the entire universe: they will feel like they are thrown into a fiery furnace of burning shame.
Does any of that sound logically inconsistent, irrational or unfair? Any different from your own sense of justice?
Perhaps it would be better to play it safe and be merciful, generous and concerned for your fellow human beings; and eschew hatred, lies, corruption and violence. (And the masks the monsters wear to feed upon their prey.)
“To sleep, perchance to Dream; aye, there’s the rub,
For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.”
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July 7, 2019 at 4:55 pm
bleatmop
Jesus appears to have taken to incoherent ramblings that have nothing to do with the point at hand. Dementia is such a terrible blight on humanity. It’s a shame that god’s only son has fallen to that which he had created.
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July 7, 2019 at 11:55 pm
raunchel
This so very much. Rationality and love were what allowed me to escape my fundamentalist upbringing, which also is why so many religious groups want to control education. Ignatius of Loyola was quite right in that regard.
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July 8, 2019 at 3:55 am
Jesus
Yes, very interesting how so many groups with man-made ideological belief systems (“religions”) want to control education, the media, the culture, the nation, the world and the minds of individuals.
Look at how they are wage war on each other like packs of animals fighting over carcasses in the forests of the night.
What they call “love” is really tribalism, bigotry and hatred for anyone who thinks differently than they do.
What they call “rational thinking” is adopting an ideological belief system and using confirmation bias to filter out any information contrary to what they believe.
Is your man-made world with its man-made instincts and man-made cultures a world of love and rational thinking? Or is it a ball of confusion? A world at war on the brink of self-destruction?
“Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What mortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?”
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