As you may or may not know, I'm writing a book about the Bible. I'm writing about all the evil things that happen in the Bible to be exact. There's one thing that I've found while rereading the Bible, and that is the women and children keep being punished for the sins of men. Now, I know this book doesn't have any evidence behind it, but it still bugs the crap out of me. How can a woman speak good things of this god? More importantly how can they teach their kids that the things in this book are good? Yeah, there's some good things that happen in the New Testament, but so far in the Old Testament there's nothing but bloodshed.
I don't claim to know everything on this religion, nor do I want to know how to get into heaven. To be in heaven means you're an angel. Well, the angels are always sent to do their master's dirty work. I don't want to be anyone's servant. I don't want to be a servant in life and I damn sure don't want to one after I die. But that's really what Christians are. They're servants. Slaves to their god. And their god lets them think they have free will.
There's another thing that I have a problem with. Preachers say that God gives a person free will. What they fail to mention is that this god also has a habit of taking away that free will when he wants something done his way. Like in Egypt. This god changed the heart of the Pharaoh many times and nobody seems to have a problem with this. They disregard it. There are a lot of things in the Bible that their god does that are just plain wrong. But none of them question it. Why? Because they're afraid if they do then they will go to hell.
Personally, I don't believe there is an afterlife. I believe, once you die, you're dead. Dead meaning that you are not alive. Dead! To cease to be. I don't believe that if I pray and worship a god and devote my whole life to him, that he will make my life work out great for me. I don't believe that because 1. I don't need a promise of ever lasting life in paradise to be inspired to be a good person 2. This god is not a loving or just god. He punishes women and children for the actions of men. and 3. This god doesn't enforce the laws he created, he goes back on his word, and he lies to the people that follow him.
When you have a president who lies, you don't continue to follow him. You throw his ass out and elect someone to take his place. When you catch a person lying to you, don't continue to trust that person, you watch your words around them so they don't twist them into someplace they're not. Why is religion different? Why do you continue to follow a god who has shown time and time again that he doesn't care? Why do you continue to say that it's not god who turn his back on us, that it's us who turned our backs on him? Why do you continue to make excuses for this god who take pleasure in torturing you?
You've been abused by your religion and you refuse to see that there's a way out. You fear of what will happen to your soul should you break away from this abuse. Nobody can tell you anything of reason, because you're so scared of what will happen should they be wrong. Your fear controls you, and you will never be free. Until you are able to stand up and take control of your own thought and actions, you are doomed to live a life of fear.
I'm not saying that Atheist don't have fears. We do fear, but the things we fear are very different than what you fear. We fear the effects of what global warming will have on the earth when we are dead and our children are here to suffer for our bad judgement. We fear that our kids aren't being educated correctly in the matter of evolution. We fear teachers will mistreat our kids in schools because of our beliefs. Our fears are very different.
We (believers and non-believers)get angry about some of the same things, but for different reasons. Believers get angry when talking about gays getting married because they fear it will someone taint the pure image they have on marriage. We get angry because they should be able to have the same civil right as the straight people have. You think marriage is a bond with with one man and one woman, but you're wrong. Even if you don't see that keeping this civil right from them is because every person should be treated the same, you are still wrong when you think about it in a religious light. Men in the bible had many wives and even more concubines. So, this holly union between one man and one woman is bullshit!
We get angry with the war we're in. You're angry because this religion attacked your religion. When really it was just a few crazy men, not the entire religion. You see it as a war between good and evil. The good god vs the bad god. But what you fail to realize is, IT'S THE SAME DAMN GOD! Their god and your god are one in the same! We get mad about this war, because it's killing innocent men, women, and children, and our own young men are dying because they think they're fighting the devil.
And we even get mad about religion. You get mad because we don't believe what you believe. You say we "dehumanize" you. We "judge" you based on your religion. But you fail to see that you do the same to us. The difference is that we have open minds with our open mouths. We seek evidence and facts rather than believing whatever we're told to believe. Your minds are closed to possibility that you could be wrong, but your mouths are open and your actions are rash when confronted with a debate about your religion.
You say the things that scientist don't have an answer to is the work of god. Need I remind you that at one time people thought god kept the earth from crashing into the sun until a scientist proved different? Just because they don't have the answers yet, doesn't mean that we will never have them. And the sooner you guys stop insulting them because they don't have the answers yet, the faster they can make the ground breaking discovery.
As long as there's been a god figure among the human race, there has been war. We will never be able to have a peaceful world until we can get past all things that make us different. The Christian belief is that those who don't worship their god must die. How can you be peaceful when your religion is so violent?
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