Captured Perfectly
This guy gets it perfectly. Just perfectly. I'm sure I've alluded to this mindset before in previous entries, but this video hits it right on the fucking head.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iClejS8vWjo
I've always been confounded by just how human many Christians make the Christian god out to be. For a being that's omniscient and omnipresent and omnibenevolent (and perhaps omnivorous) he certainly comes across as a sort of superhuman with super powers more than a supreme being that transcends human understanding.
I go to hell because I don't accept Christ as my savior. That's just so... wrong. It just doesn't jive with my concept of the Christian god -- of any being I'd call omniscient and omnibenevolent. Like the devilishly handsome TheoreticalBullshit claims, God would know me more intimately than anyone could possibly know me. Perhaps -- perhaps even probably -- he would know me better than I know myself.
He would know the experiences I've had. The pain I've suffered and the pain I've caused. The good I've done. The evil I've done. He'd know of the evil things in my past that I've regretted and sought forgiveness for as well as the evil things for which I've never had a twinge of guilt.
He'd know that I don't have a problem with God. I'm not rebelling or anything silly like that. It's just that my personality type, my experiences, my type of intellect, my serious thoughts and reflections have not led me to believe in the existence of a god. I'd be lying to myself if I said that I did. It's not something that I can just turn on. And it's not like I haven't seriously considered it and thought about it. Unless my life and my me somehow changes completely and utterly before I die, I will likely continue to not believe in the existence of a god.
And that's okay.
If there really is the Christian god existing somewhere, he'll understand me. He'll understand everyone.
It's why I'm not really sure if anyone deserves to go to hell. I've mentioned it before, but we're all just products of our minds and our experiences. Ted Bundy was an evil person by just about any standard, but was he really evil? I mean did he set out to do evil? Did he wake up saying "I want to do evil." And even if he did, what do his personality, his psychology, and his upbringing have to do with all of that? How much of him is him and how much of him is the universe acting upon him? What can really be defined as him? What part of a person is just that person? Is there anything?
We're getting off subject here.
The point is, if the Christian god exists as I think I understand him, his love and knowledge transcends human understanding; they're beyond our comprehension. I just can't see a truly all-powerful entity damning me to eternal hellfire because of one arbitrary -- but very well thought-out -- choice I've made in my life.
- Michael
Click to viewhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iClejS8vWjo
I've always been confounded by just how human many Christians make the Christian god out to be. For a being that's omniscient and omnipresent and omnibenevolent (and perhaps omnivorous) he certainly comes across as a sort of superhuman with super powers more than a supreme being that transcends human understanding.
I go to hell because I don't accept Christ as my savior. That's just so... wrong. It just doesn't jive with my concept of the Christian god -- of any being I'd call omniscient and omnibenevolent. Like the devilishly handsome TheoreticalBullshit claims, God would know me more intimately than anyone could possibly know me. Perhaps -- perhaps even probably -- he would know me better than I know myself.
He would know the experiences I've had. The pain I've suffered and the pain I've caused. The good I've done. The evil I've done. He'd know of the evil things in my past that I've regretted and sought forgiveness for as well as the evil things for which I've never had a twinge of guilt.
He'd know that I don't have a problem with God. I'm not rebelling or anything silly like that. It's just that my personality type, my experiences, my type of intellect, my serious thoughts and reflections have not led me to believe in the existence of a god. I'd be lying to myself if I said that I did. It's not something that I can just turn on. And it's not like I haven't seriously considered it and thought about it. Unless my life and my me somehow changes completely and utterly before I die, I will likely continue to not believe in the existence of a god.
And that's okay.
If there really is the Christian god existing somewhere, he'll understand me. He'll understand everyone.
It's why I'm not really sure if anyone deserves to go to hell. I've mentioned it before, but we're all just products of our minds and our experiences. Ted Bundy was an evil person by just about any standard, but was he really evil? I mean did he set out to do evil? Did he wake up saying "I want to do evil." And even if he did, what do his personality, his psychology, and his upbringing have to do with all of that? How much of him is him and how much of him is the universe acting upon him? What can really be defined as him? What part of a person is just that person? Is there anything?
We're getting off subject here.
The point is, if the Christian god exists as I think I understand him, his love and knowledge transcends human understanding; they're beyond our comprehension. I just can't see a truly all-powerful entity damning me to eternal hellfire because of one arbitrary -- but very well thought-out -- choice I've made in my life.
- Michael