Oct 02, 2008 14:13
I just have something I would like to say
and that is that Christians have been irritating me more than usual lately for two reasons, which are:
-That I have been exposed to slightly more of that particular brand of Christianity which insists that we will burn without accepting God, or that we should somehow be subservient to him, and
-They refuse to look at their religion logically.
I realised the other day in class while we were talking about pre-destination (which is when people believe that God has planned their lives out for them), that if God exists this can't be wrong. If he really is God, he created the world and knows everything about it, and is also 100% good. So that means he knows everything about everyone and how everything's going to turn out. Not only that, but the way things are and will turn out is exactly the way God would want them to. That means that if I don't believe in God, then God doesn't want me to and believing in him was never part of his plan for me. And, since he's entirely good, he wouldn't send me to Hell for something he controlled.
The only way I can see of overcoming this problem with the religion (or more specifically, the way people control other people through the religion) is by acknowledging a) that God didn't create the world, b) that he doesn't know everything there is to know or c) that he isn't entirely good, or would be perfectly willing to blame us for things he did.