Thoughts

What if I told you, “faith in Jesus” is a RELIGION?

And just because you’ve spoken words, doesn’t change its definition.

If Jesus is just a relationship, why the book of laws?

By the definition of “Religion”, it’s a rule for cosmic cause

If Jesus is just a friendship, why push BELIEF of the unseen

Discount the delusions, “quote unquote” visions, and acid tripping dreams

So Jesus preaches FAITH, but there’s another thing I don’t understand,

How is rape, murder and HATE, forgiven by the torture of another man

No really, what does this say about our justice system?

That if I slaughtered 30 men I could free 30 in prison?

No really, how much does Jesus’ death ACTUALLY weigh?

If it just permits common evils, so long as they put faith in what YOU say?

No really, how do you justify a sacrifice

For progress, responsibility is the only thing that qualifies

Call me judgmental but more importantly call me decisive

Because there’s a problem when you sugar coat Jesus, it’s called misguidance.

In every other aspect of life you know your logic’s Swiss cheese

It’s like saying “we play basketball, but it’s not a sport, it’s a team…”

It’s like if Coka-Cola said Coke is Coke and not a soda

Or if this isn’t actually a phone, because it’s really Motorola

Honestly I’m sick of this — this loss of words kills production

If you’re going to convince, do so with logic, not rhythmatic seduction

These are crucial times we’re living in, give me reason or give me death

Don’t take away the beauty, just take away the rest.

The following’s not to you, but let me address all concerned

Our hope’s not with Christ, but human RELATIONS we must learn

This much we can agree on, a Revelation is soon at hand

But how we interpret the cause of this unveiling should strictly be with man.

Again, as a message to ALL, let our mortality make us hunger

Quest for knowledge, Quest for love, for without these we are plundered.

I can’t stress this enough, it is deeply on my conscious

I know I’ve made my decision, but tell me what your response is.

Checkmate Christianity

Jesus’ death did nothing.
What’s so special about blood
dinosaurs … meant to suffer? funny. I thought all animals were plant eaters at the beginning (according to the bible)
is free will random?
what good does knowing of a god do now. People will have the wrong motivation to be good.
Splitting the languages… oh yeah, not such a hot idea. What’s wrong with reaching the skies? We just did it like 40 years ago, and you didn’t do jack nothing.
So you mean to tell me that in 500 years, we made Japanese people, Indians, whites blacks Native-Americans and more? … African imports were 200 years ago, yet they still look the same.
“freewill” (whatever that is) has no inherit value. So why install it?
your prophecies don’t require divine wisdom or intervention.
Suddam Hussein (an Arab) pitched a couple tents in the city of Babylon.
Not to mention Alexander the Great.
Your chastity neglects biological needs. Biological needs you claim originate with god.
Where does disease come from?
God says man can not guide their own foot step, but if we’ve had supernatural intervention the whole time, what proof does he have?
So what happen to the other books of the bible? God make some edits?
You really need to kill 50 kids with bears?

#Checkmate

Just wanted to wrap this into one nice little bundle.

A few things the bible was right about

So long as you ignore the references to “the four corners of the earth” (easily exchangeable with “the cardinal directions”) and “the pillars of the earth” the bible was pretty right on when it talks about the earth hanging from nothing and being round. Though some may humanize this and say that the stated fact was an easy guess because everything else they saw in the sky was round, and hanging upon nothing.

Jeremiah 23:27 talks about god knowing how people will try to erase his name. No, it’s not completely eradicated. But it’s quite curious as to why it was stripped out during translation.
“Don’t use my name in vein” doesn’t mean don’t use it at all, in fact not using it is more damaging to his desire to be worshiped.

Rabbits are chewers of the Cud.

All of these things are mostly out of human reach. I doubt anyone studied rabbits that much and then decided to put that in the bible.
A lot of non-believers will also try to insist that the Hebrew word describing the earth meant STRICTLY like a disc or flat circle. To this, I say “spare me”. But at the same time I’ll have to admit, “Where the hell are these pillars coming from?”. I can understand 4 corners = 4 cardinal directions. But “pillars” is really beyond me.
I also think it’s quite a stretch to insist that “Don’t use my name in vein” is what really battered away god’s name (Jehovah)
The phrase itself is saying “Don’t use my name wastefully” which REALLY DOES imply USE IT EFFECTIVELY… which means USE IT.

Figured I’d write this just to let others know I’m not neglecting due credit.

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BTW: I’m not saying that the bible was right about the picture. I’m just putting that up there because that’s what I’ve come from.

The Test of God

Wouldn’t the better filter be to just let the earth go on about its own and see how people behaved WITHOUT the selfishness-extracting incentive of gaining eternal life?

Some Jehovah’s Witnesses Today.

Even when I left that faith, for a short while I hesitated to speak against them simply because I would be labeled an apostate. And the social consequences of that were immense; not just for me, but my family also.

I met some JW’s at the clinic this morning. Previously someone had placed a watchtower in the magazine bin. I picked it up and looked at it. I haven’t seen one in a long time. That was the conversation starter. I eventually got to the point where I told them I was raised one but dropped out when I was 18.

They talked about the time of the end, the prophecies and talked about the evil people of today.
I let them talk for the most part. I’ve always wanted to see what it was like on the other side of the fence.
I had gotten what I came for at the clinic (some receipts) and they were more than welcome to keep talking. And I wanted them to, because I was about to bust out in debate mode. I addressed the vague qualities of the Nebuchadnezzar statue Prophecy (the only one mentioned at the time) , I also addressed the “why the world is so full of mean people” .

Then they had to go.

Earlier in this blog, I think I’ve countered many Christian supports. I’m not going to go in depth with debating religion anymore because the educational process has a side effect of deteriorating it’s existence anyway. Engaging in technology, philosophy and the sciences also help expose the individual to the logical fallacies associated with theistic religions.

It was an interesting experience.