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Blurty for challenge_god.
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| Saturday, January 17th, 2004 |
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I have a question and I want you to be HONEST in your answer. THINK about the questions. What is your religion/denomination/spiritual path etc? Why did you choose to follow the particular path you follow? What makes your path different from the millions of others? What comfort/peace/security etc does it offer you? Think about yourself as a person, and how you follow your religion and what it offers you, do you think someone that is the exact opposite of you could find the same peace that you do? Most importantly, how do YOU as an individual define the idea of "evil" as compared to the general definition of your chosen religion? Where does evil come from and why does evil exist? ( my answers ) This is being posted to a large amount of religious/spiritual communities on Blurty so if you get this on your friends page 200 times I’m sorry! |
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| Wednesday, October 22nd, 2003 |
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I'm getting tired of this community. When I first created this thing, I think I was looking for something good to read. Now I just don't care. As this community continues to grow at a placid pace, I find that my dislike of it seems to grow, also. This is going nowhere for me. I have lost interest in this discussion because there will never be a conclusion to this debate. It's pointless for me. Don't get me wrong, though. I'll keep the community going and jot down my word every once and while, but other than that, I really don't feel like it. Nor do I feel like I have the time to listen to anyone's postulations anymore. So, there you go. |
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| Friday, October 17th, 2003 |
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A couple of months ago my computer died, and since then I've been gone for a while. Anyway, I've noticed some new members who have joined. That's great and all, but I seriously wish people would take the time to read the rules. It would only take a good reader about 1 minutes to read, and a somewhat sloppy reader about 2 minutes to read. I'd really appreciate it if you did. |
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| Monday, September 15th, 2003 |
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Genesis 38:1 And it came to pass at that time, that Judah went down from his brethren, and turned in to a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah. 38:2 And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her. 38:3 And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er. 38:4 And she conceived again, and bare a son; and she called his name Onan. 38:5 And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him. 38:6 And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, whose name was Tamar. 38:7 And Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD slew him. I scoured my King James Version for the reason WHY Er was killed. What exactly did he do? Know what? Outside of his name mentioned in passing, he's never talked about again. Hmmmmm..... 17:14 And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant. Well, into the lake of fire with the majority of Europe. 26:4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; This is the old testament, so this refers to jews. Jews are, and always have been, the minority. A broken promise of god? Deuteronomy 7:14 Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. 7:15 And the LORD will take away from thee all sickness, and will put none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, upon thee; but will lay them upon all them that hate thee. So by this there is not ONE jew ( or christian since it includes believers and christians believe in the abrahamic god) that has been infertile, nor has there been one who has EVER gotten sick? Another broken promise from god. 18:20 But the prophet, which shall presume to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die. 18:21 And if thou say in thine heart, How shall we know the word which the LORD hath not spoken? 18:22 When a prophet speaketh in the name of the LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him. God warns against false prophets. And how will you know them? Their prophesies and promises won't come to pass.......does that make god a false prophet as well? I'd sure think so. And Jehova's Witnesses are totally fucked. There's plenty more questions I have and studying to do upon all this. The greatness of being a skeptic, I guess. Always something to study and learn. |
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| Thursday, September 4th, 2003 |
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organized religion seems so...organized. go figure huh. well, it's almost to the point of becoming a government (governmental issues to be resolved in later rants). there's tithing (taxing), church services (court duty), a higherarchy (the oligarchy that rules the world), religious documents (documents of importance that can't actually be proved), and faith (in religion and that the world is turning into shit) i was raised kinda catholic by a catholic father who believes god is dead (hope he's not going to hell for me writing that), a protestant mother who started Baptist and ended Methodist, a brother who slept kneeling in church (my idol), and my Methodist sister. it always seemed just a chore. now thought that i've been introduced to so many different religions, i'm realizing that they're all basically the same. all of them are based on a certian higher being(s) with a basic set of moral ethics. it really doesn't matter whether i have the Decalogue or the Rede, i still dont plan on killing or stealing. so why dont we all just quit the (excuse political incorrectness here) retarded wars on other religions and make a one world religion. or at least teach acceptance. i was raised being taught at my school that my mother and sister were going to hell. it's things like that that just dont sit right for world peace. i'm so jealous of people that have religion and believe. i wish i had the comfort of knowing that there really is someone/thing there for me when i need it. would've been nice to have the last three years. but hey, whatever, i don't have religion except for my basic belief of bad energy/good energy and morals. and the belief that one day i will die and untill then life will be hard. and if there is a higher being: what the heck were those three years for?!? (this was a rant from august 16th in my journal, i thought it more or less explained my views on religion, but trust me, there will be plenty more. i'm just way too tired now to really get into it.) |
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| Saturday, August 2nd, 2003 |
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It's amazing how God always seems to speak to me in the most insignificant of ways. Everywhere I look I see the Creator in the tiniest of things. I've always argued that the Creator is able to be seen in the small joys that comes with experiencing life. Something as simple as the slice of pizza, and the beer that I'm enjoying right now, hearing a bird chirp after the rain has stopped or a good conversation with a new friend. I realize that people may think or perhaps argue that this logic is flawed. The fundamentalist may be upset that I have found the image of God in a pint ale. The skeptic will say that I'm simply writing God into where I think He needs to be so that I can cope with my pitiful existence. However, I look to the Great philosophers and see their stance on the subject. Nietzsche teaches that the superhuman is "impervious to suffering." We are to learn not to be affected by or react to things like hot or cold, good or bad smells, beauty or ugliness, love or hatred. We are taught to block out the beauty of Creation to reach the superhuman level that Nietzsche himself strived to reach but came up empty. Then there is G.K. Chesterton, who said "The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has no one to thank." Continuing he makes this astounding point, "Joy, which was the publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian." I agree with Chesterton, Joy should not have to be exclaimed in public it should be a gentle secret because joy is all around us! On days like this more than ever I realize that I've been asking the wrong question. I've been going through a rough time and asking where is God. Images of my grandma dying of cancer have been burnt into my brain while I strive to remember what she looked like before I spent a week at her bedside with my grandfather in the hospice center. However, if I look hard enough I can see God. I can see the Creator the moment that my cousin came from Colorado to see grandma. He has made some pretty bad choices and has a pretty rough road ahead of him. Because of those choices he had a falling out with my aunt and they hadn't spoken in years. That's where God was, healing a broken relationship between a mother and a son in the hallway of the hospice center; the Creator was in their embrace, in their kiss, and in their words "I love you, I'm sorry." God was also in the last few kisses that my grandparents experienced with each other, I would like to think that God was witnessed by my grandmother in her knowing that my Grandpa and I were by her side, ready to get a nurse if needed or to simply hug her and tell her that we love her. Chesterton dared to ask the question of "why is there something instead of nothing?" "and being that there is something why is it orderly and beautiful rather than chaotic and ugly?" It has to be designed. Chesterton found God in the beauty and goodness of food, sex (with his wife) and in a good cigar. "I am ordinary in the correct sense of the term, which means the acceptance of an order, a Creator and the Creation, the common sense of gratitude for Creation, life and love as gifts permanently good, marriage and chivalry as laws rightly controlling them...." "Is it strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, 'Do it again sun; and every evening, 'Do it again to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes all daisies separately, but has never to tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy, for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we." Here dies another day During which I have had eyes, ears, hands And the great world round me; And with tomorrow begins another day Why am I allowed more than two? That was Chestertons view of life. Unfortunately I tend to seek out the childish protection of the "superhuman" rather than the daring and risky attitude of a joyful part of Creation, who understands that while there are bad things in the world, joy is still dominant over them and the Creator is in fact in control. Days like this I feel that I have come to finally understand and in a sense feel what Chesterton was feeling. Then I wake up and realizing that the conclusion was short lived and want to hide in the shell and security of the superhuman, not experiencing life at all. But in doing so I miss out on life. I miss out on love. I miss out on beauty. And most of all I miss out on seeing, touching and hearing my sweet, loving Creator. |
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| Friday, August 1st, 2003 |
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the reason I don't like organized religion. everything can be explained, if people put their MINDS to it. The only thing that stops things from being proven or disproven is faith; faith is literally believing without questioning("you just have to believe in it, son, I don't know why, just because I guess.") yes, intuition is a good thing to go with. however, my intuition tells me that because there is no proof of a god that I have come across, I must come to the conclusion that there is no god. If a person cannot prove that they have a penis, then they obviously don't, because it is something that is either there or is not there, there is no "well, maybe that's a penis.." Beliefs put a mind in a position of pure ignorance, and do nothing but destroy one of the humand mind's greatest abilities, and that ability is to think for yourself. I would rather KNOW a god than believe in a god anyday, but the thing about most organized religions is that they frown upon this. why? does their god have something to hide? Some nasty little secrets that must stay that way? I refuse to believe in a god who commands men to rape, murder, and steal to get into heaven. I refuse to believe in a god who doesn't want me to evolve as an individual and as a member of the human race. I refuse to sit through my life doing what authority members tell me to do "because that's the way it is. I refuse to believe in anything. "Beliefs are dangerous. Beliefs allow the mind to stop functioning. A non-functioning mind is clinicaly dead." -Maynard James Keenan TOOL - Ænima liner notes |
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| Saturday, July 19th, 2003 |
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| hi. im new, im 15 from new jersey..my name is lierin..and i thought that id join..i saw the name and i almost wet myself, ive been dying for a chance to really hear some arguments for/against god, because i think he's a fucking cruel being and im starting to wonder why so many people to devote themselves to him. gods of all kinds are just something to believe in, something that can have power over your life so you dont feel like you actually have to make decisions on your own. "it was god's will" bullshit, it was your own will. you do what you like and then you blame your mistakes on "Gods plan". yeah right. i was raised by a Catholic father and a Southern Baptist mother, i was raised to believe in jesus, but in all honesty i dont ive ever felt the need to go to church, to pray, to "open my heart to jesus". im not satanic, but id rather forget all that religion shit. its like one huge cult | ||||||||
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| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2003 |
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I everyone. I'm new to blurty and new to this community. I thought I'd join 'cause the words "challenge god" got my fingers twitching! I love nothing better than a good religious debate! The thing is, who's god am i to challenge? Not mine. Cause i have no qualms with mine! Cause he/she is a pretty cool god. (But others can if they want. I dont care/mind.) But i'll challenge the catholic god. I was raised Roman Catholic and believe you me, there are some fucked up things in that religion. I percieve god to be way more layed back than that! Fire and brimstone and hell...give me a break! Whenever I see those hard-core american christians on telly i just smile. You just know god is up there shakin' his head in amazement or havin' a good giggle. And Jesus is like "Man, I knew I was onto a good thing, but sheesh...some people just take things way to far!" |
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| Sunday, June 22nd, 2003 |
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I just joined one or two days ago. The name of this community jumped out to me. Let me just start my introducing myself, so you can get a feel to who I am. I'm Crystal. I'm turning seventeen in July. I live in the San Fernando Valley in California. I've went to a small private Christian school since Kindergarten (the same one all the way up to now). At school, I'm surrounded by rich white kids that drive BMWs and Lexus. At home, I get to hear my neighbors spanish music blaring out of his broken down volvo, gun shots at night, and police sirens all day. I only just realized that I didn't belong in that school. But its too late for me now. For years, I knew there was a God. There had to be. It gave me hope. But I was just a kid. And granted, I still am a kid but I did grow up a bit. For my Bible class final, our teacher made us each write our own personal manifesto. Throughout my essays it said "Sometimes I believe this... but sometimes..." It's so sad. I know so much about God, the Bible, everything... but I have so much doubt in it. I have much respect for those who are strong enough to be a Christian. And I despise those who underestimate the importance of it (I don't mean non-Christians, I mean the hypocrits... just wanted to make sure you knew that). I also respect those who won't label themselves a Christian because they know somewhere inside of them that they aren't. I know I'm not. Anyways... sometimes I believe there is a God. Sometimes I don't. I don't think I can know for sure. So I guess I'm agnostic. I don't know. Sometimes I find myself questioning what's real. If I don't even know I'm real... how could I believe in a God? I'm strange aren't I? I'm sorry. I just felt like... showing myself a bit. I'm sorry. |
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| Saturday, June 21st, 2003 |
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There is no proof that God exists, therefore God does not exist. You cannot prove that you had Cornflakes for breakfast last Friday, therefore you did not have Cornflakes for breakfast last Friday. That's probably one of the dumbest theories I have ever heard [and I've heard a lot of stupid shit in my day, on both sides]. I can't prove that I washed my hair last Sunday, but that doesn't mean that I didn't wash my hair last Sunday. The above theory makes just about as much sense as this does: There is no proof of God so he doesn't exist. "I cant prove that you have a penis so it doesn't exist." |
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| Monday, June 16th, 2003 |
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| Hey all, newbie here! Hate being the new one...so I'm an atheist, Darwinism all the way. Maybe that could be a religion lol j/k. I was dealing with the battle of God and Evolution right before all the priest scandals came out and that pretty much locked in atheism for me. Studying biology in college right now and knowing the ins and outs of evolution helps that out too. But I still love to discuss the controversy! | ||||||||
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| Friday, June 13th, 2003 |
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| I live in Ontario (Canada) and Roman Catholic Schools are fully funded by the government while giving nothing to other religious schools. The U.N. has even charged Ontario of violating human rights laws and the issue was put to debate but Ontario decided to keep on fully funding Catholic Schools even though 79% of the population wants to stop Catholic School funding. Is that so messed up and discriminatory or what? | ||||||
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Hi people, i'm new. i used to be an agnostic but then i found out that there's no such thing! That's right, there's no such thing as an agonstic. click on the link to read more: http://www.thehappyheretic.com/06-01.htm now i'm an atheist. |
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| Dudes, dudettes, I hate the conspiracy- it puts all my jokes/phrases/quirks whatever, on national television. It's really unfair. Like toenails and the waffle in my hair. Make it stop! | ||||||||||
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| Wednesday, June 11th, 2003 |
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Hi...I'm new... thought I would just say hi, since i don't have a whole lot else to say right now. Using capitals in sentances is hard for me... lol... not that I don't use correct grammer on a regular basis, but I just usually don't pay much attention to capitalizing every single 'I' and what-not. Anywho... I suppose i should be stating my religion? Well, I would, but of course I'm undecided. I'm sort of leaning towards the Athiest side of the scale, but maybe that's why i joined.. to find answers... i guess we'll see. I'll post later, something that actually means something instead of the boring 'hello' that the new people always post to be friendly. |
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| Sunday, June 1st, 2003 |
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| hallo. im new, my names britt. i really liked this community. im atheist.. and yah. not much else to say at the moment. | ||||||
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| Friday, May 30th, 2003 |
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I hath joined thine community! I liked it, and I've also replied to a couple of threads at the bottom, but being as I am weak-willed, I stoped having read about 7 posts... teehee! I hereby greet thee, and also place forth mine first post! I HATE PEOPLE PREACHING IN THE STREET! Yesh.... they are very annoying and contradicting the Bible where it says in the Sermon on the Mount, "Do not pray and show off in the streets like the hypocrites do!" So there you have it! If you ever see them, kick them in the shins or proceed to draw pentagrams all over the pavement! Later kids, Fi xxx |
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| Wednesday, May 28th, 2003 |
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| So yeah.. I'm new here, apparently. I'm not sure what to say, I don't like posting really. I just thought I'd say hey hey and that I'm new and that I heard I'm a good debater (sp?). So I'll be commenting on some entries, I guess. Er, that's it. Lol. Oh yeah! I guess it'd be smart to tell you my religion? I really do not believe in anything. I believe in sin, I believe in the devil. I do not believe in God. I'm not gothic, though some people say I look like I am. I guess I'm more of an Atheist. Yeah, yeah. That's what I am. Kay, lol well that's it. C-ya. | ||||||||
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| Thursday, May 22nd, 2003 |
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How important do you think religion is in your life? <3 Thnx Gamila |
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Blurty for challenge_god.
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