07-07-2016, 06:52 PM
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and that is the scary thing about some religions. It teaches people that if they do not continue to believe they will be damned for all eternity. Telling that to kids. That is some messed up sh*t.
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And THAT is one of the things that offends me the most ... these self-righteous sanctimonious asses accost people who perhaps aren't very good at critical thinking, including truly innocent children, tell them fairy tales about heaven and hell and then convnce these folks to live out their lives in a pinched, myopic, limited, and hypothetical style. Designed to "get them to heaven."
Meantime, they are regaled with the concept of Prosperity Gospel while the big shots in the "church" take their money and piss it away on whatever ...
And when you really delve into the doctrine? Well, I've got a few questions ...
Do demons and angels exist? If so, are they immortal? Do they live in dormitories and eat dining hall food?
Who supervises Limbo? Does someone have to change the diapers on the babies there? Does someone come and rock them to sleeep at night?
Is Purgatory kind of a farm team of Hell? Do Satan's demons run it?
Let me get this straight, are we to believe that this "infallible god", in his very first try, is unable to successfully pull of the creation an Adam and an Eve who almost immediately turn renegade, get 86'd out of Eden and then have two kids, after which the first death is not only a murder, but a fratricide ... what? We're supposed to look up to and admire a superior intelligence who lacks the competence of a mediocre factory supervisor?
Being submerged in a huge tub of water three times, in public, is needed to access heaven?
Baptizing the long-dead saves them from perdition?
Oh, yeah, and don't forget, as my Doctor friend told me the other night ... We are living in THE END TIMES!!! Oh, my god, where have we heard that one before?
And I asked her to explain Leviticus to me if she truly believed in the divinely inspired Bible. So, says she, that was meant for a different audience under different circumstances. Oh, ok, then what about Genesis? Well that's still true today, says she. Oh, ok, how do you tell the difference? Well, says she, you have to know "HOW" to read the Bible. Oh, ok, how does one learn? Well, says she, we'll teach you. Yeah, I'll bet you will ...
and that is the scary thing about some religions. It teaches people that if they do not continue to believe they will be damned for all eternity. Telling that to kids. That is some messed up sh*t.
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And THAT is one of the things that offends me the most ... these self-righteous sanctimonious asses accost people who perhaps aren't very good at critical thinking, including truly innocent children, tell them fairy tales about heaven and hell and then convnce these folks to live out their lives in a pinched, myopic, limited, and hypothetical style. Designed to "get them to heaven."
Meantime, they are regaled with the concept of Prosperity Gospel while the big shots in the "church" take their money and piss it away on whatever ...
And when you really delve into the doctrine? Well, I've got a few questions ...
Do demons and angels exist? If so, are they immortal? Do they live in dormitories and eat dining hall food?
Who supervises Limbo? Does someone have to change the diapers on the babies there? Does someone come and rock them to sleeep at night?
Is Purgatory kind of a farm team of Hell? Do Satan's demons run it?
Let me get this straight, are we to believe that this "infallible god", in his very first try, is unable to successfully pull of the creation an Adam and an Eve who almost immediately turn renegade, get 86'd out of Eden and then have two kids, after which the first death is not only a murder, but a fratricide ... what? We're supposed to look up to and admire a superior intelligence who lacks the competence of a mediocre factory supervisor?
Being submerged in a huge tub of water three times, in public, is needed to access heaven?
Baptizing the long-dead saves them from perdition?
Oh, yeah, and don't forget, as my Doctor friend told me the other night ... We are living in THE END TIMES!!! Oh, my god, where have we heard that one before?
And I asked her to explain Leviticus to me if she truly believed in the divinely inspired Bible. So, says she, that was meant for a different audience under different circumstances. Oh, ok, then what about Genesis? Well that's still true today, says she. Oh, ok, how do you tell the difference? Well, says she, you have to know "HOW" to read the Bible. Oh, ok, how does one learn? Well, says she, we'll teach you. Yeah, I'll bet you will ...
[font=Arial Black]... a man of notoriously vicious and intemperate disposition.[/font]