I updated my status with a comment about how religion divides people more than it unites and how sunday is basically the most segregated day of the week. I theist sent me an email saying this:
""I have come to bring fire in the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled! But I have a baptism to undergo, and how distressed I am until it is completed! Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division. From now on there will be five in one family divided against each other, three against two and two against three. They will be divided father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law."
It speaks of the division of believers and non-believers, and how it will cause pain among families. Jesus came to wage a war against death, was killed and buried (the baptism to undergo), and was raised again, victorious against it. Believers must do likewise, even if it means forsaking family for Christ. This passage isn't about race"I responded with this:
Nonsense.
You are defending, once again, something that cannot be defended. Why would Jesus do that? Why would he bring something that was already there? There has always been division and turmoil between those who believe in fairy tale x, those who do not believe it, and those who believe in the OTHER myriad of fairy tales out there.
Jesus came to wage a war against death... which he gave us in the first place.
Supposedly adam and eve were immortal before they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Supposedly god punished us with mortal, finite lives.
God did this KNOWING in advance that he would have to come back, sacrifice himself to himself to forgive us for something that we did BECAUSE OF HIM.
Why put the tree there? Why allow the snake to say those things? Why even make us without the knowledge of good and evil and THEN expect us to make the right decision? And then punish us for it? Oh yea, and the only way for it to work is if you accept him without any evidence whatsoever.
I never said the verse was about race. I also never said that the verse was about being poor or rich, which is another distinction that I made in my statement. The status was about the division that is created with religion, and IN SPITE of the overall message that some people claim christianity is all about. Love.
Tell me this... who is god trying to impress? He makes the rules, he is the alpha and the omega and he could certainly obliterate whatever rule he made in the past simply by snapping his fingers. Why go to these great lenghts to be the martyr of his own cowboy story, be the center of attention and be the one who in the end, is the good guy and the one that everyone loves?
Why would an omnipotent being wage a war against ANYTHING? It makes no sense, and to be quite honest, the fact that you believe and assert that diving people is a necessary step is disgusting.
Thats what I think bro.
You are defending, once again, something that cannot be defended. Why would Jesus do that? Why would he bring something that was already there? There has always been division and turmoil between those who believe in fairy tale x, those who do not believe it, and those who believe in the OTHER myriad of fairy tales out there.
Jesus came to wage a war against death... which he gave us in the first place.
Supposedly adam and eve were immortal before they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Supposedly god punished us with mortal, finite lives.
God did this KNOWING in advance that he would have to come back, sacrifice himself to himself to forgive us for something that we did BECAUSE OF HIM.
Why put the tree there? Why allow the snake to say those things? Why even make us without the knowledge of good and evil and THEN expect us to make the right decision? And then punish us for it? Oh yea, and the only way for it to work is if you accept him without any evidence whatsoever.
I never said the verse was about race. I also never said that the verse was about being poor or rich, which is another distinction that I made in my statement. The status was about the division that is created with religion, and IN SPITE of the overall message that some people claim christianity is all about. Love.
Tell me this... who is god trying to impress? He makes the rules, he is the alpha and the omega and he could certainly obliterate whatever rule he made in the past simply by snapping his fingers. Why go to these great lenghts to be the martyr of his own cowboy story, be the center of attention and be the one who in the end, is the good guy and the one that everyone loves?
Why would an omnipotent being wage a war against ANYTHING? It makes no sense, and to be quite honest, the fact that you believe and assert that diving people is a necessary step is disgusting.
Thats what I think bro.
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What do you think??
That whole thing has always confused me. This "God" is a malicious one.
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