About as black as I get.
When I see someone hurting or worrying or breaking some... I try to offer them good words.
I will tell them good things about themselves and find some good things in the world to show them.
It's a part of what I do. What I am. I can't help it.
Usually, it's not work since I enjoy doing it. Altuirsm aside, I get something out of it. It makes me feel ( Read more... )
1. My reply to your post was not intended to console or rescue, it was intended to point out an opposite opinion. The "Or don't" was not meant as "Or don't, because I don't give a shit about you," it was meant to illustrate the opposing options that one has in their life. I clearly figured that you were safely nestled in your beliefs, and despite your general despair, you were not really teetering on the brink of anything. I fully understand the power of words, but I'd laugh at the thought of a simple sentence challenging the entirety of your life's faith and will.
2. You tell me about a man who didn't have blind Faith, and I'll tell you about a baby who ate a room full of gorillas. The entire essence of Faith is that it IS blind. Faith means that you have no exact, tangible, scientific proof of something and you adamantly believe its existence, regardless. What you claim is proof is nothing more than a series of isolated incidents that could've been attributed to anything, not necessarily God. But you want to believe it was the hand of God, so that's the conclusion you jump toward. The bible contradicts medicine, science, logic, and other crucial areas we found our lives on. If everyone lived their lives by the bible, we would be ill, dumb, and poor. If you even attempt to tell me otherwise, you have obviously not read the bible.
3. God is not life. Hypothetically, God created life and gave man the choice to do with life as they pleased. If he WAS life this would mean he controlled life, which would render the personal human will he gave us useless and pointless. Personally, I don't believe God is Life. Life is life, and God is used to thank and blame for things beyond our control.
"The sundering of compassion in the attempt to make a point." If you believe my compassion is sundered, you are most certainly wrong. I sympathize with your despair. And if I had no compassion, I would have simply called you an idiot. You're a grown man and I don't think you need to be showered with pity as a preface to my genuine concerns about your dependency on something so sick, twisted and morbid. Which leads me to the next point...
4. You tell me that the bible isn't sexist, racist, abusive, unrealistic, and filled with needless murder. Honestly tell me this. Tell me that you concur with God's word that woman should be silent and obey men, that they should be stoned to death if they don't scream when they're raped, that disobedient children should be killed, that it was perfectly fine for young virgin girls to be sacrificed to God, that there's nothing sick about God torturing an innocent man and his family based on a bet with the devil. Tell me that you believe in giving up every thing you own if someone asks you for it (Jesus clearly states you must do this, Stephen). Tell me that if your son is sick you are not going to take him to a doctor, you will do as God says and take him to church to have oil rubbed on him in lieu of medical treatment, as God clearly states?? Oh how you can kiss a bible and praise its verses, but so easily disregard the verses that are demented, disgusting and outrageous. Do you simply skip over THOSE parts?
If you deny that this terrible things exists in the bible and that God did directly endorse it-- you are only going to make yourself look very foolish. This has little to do with human apathy and more to do with the God you speak of being jealous, malicious and cruel.
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