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The GOD Thread~

AphroditeGoneAwry

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No. I left a God who judges, punishes and has special people a long time ago. It fell by the wayside along with santa claus and the tooth fairy and other childish affairs.

Just curious what you base this on? Or are you being facetious?

I wonder what my perspectives would have been like if i wasn't given a religious education as a kid.

What do you mean?
 

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Just curious what you base this on? Or are you being facetious?

I thought the Old Testament was your thing? It's an incomplete view, but it's not a facetious view.

What's interesting is that the person says they're rejecting God because he's like Santa Claus or the tooth fairy when it's pretty clear the exact opposite is the case and the rejection is based on a perceived lack of beneficence.
 

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I thought the Old Testament was your thing? It's an incomplete view, but it's not a facetious view.

What's interesting is that the person says they're rejecting God because he's like Santa Claus or the tooth fairy when it's pretty clear the exact opposite is the case and the rejection is based on a perceived lack of beneficence.



facetious=treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

Just wondering if she was being facetious or being serious. It is my thing, yeah. Usually people think the 'God of the Old Testament' is cruel or harsh, etc. So I like to discuss that, in particular.
 

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What's interesting is that the person says they're rejecting God because he's like Santa Claus or the tooth fairy when it's pretty clear the exact opposite is the case and the rejection is based on a perceived lack of beneficence.

... so the analogy would have been more apt if God was compared to the boogeyman? :D
 

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facetious=treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant.

Just wondering if she was being facetious or being serious. It is my thing, yeah. Usually people think the 'God of the Old Testament' is cruel or harsh, etc. So I like to discuss that, in particular.

I think the Old Testament has a clear dichotomy of the Prophets vs. Kings.
 

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... so the analogy would have been more apt if God was compared to the boogeyman? :D

I think that would be an apt analogy for most people who embrace disbelief in God and repress religosity, its the same as any other sort of repression too. You're free to choose. Choices have consequences.
 

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I think that would be an apt analogy for most people who embrace disbelief in God and repress religosity, its the same as any other sort of repression too. You're free to choose. Choices have consequences.

If I'm not a good boy Santa Claus will put coal in my stocking? :D
 

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... so the analogy would have been more apt if God was compared to the boogeyman? :D

It would at least be more consistent. Especially since the person has probably run into the arms of exclusive humanism which promises to give everybody the ability to create whatever meaning in their life they want turning them into their very own Santa for themselves.
 

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It would at least be more consistent. Especially since the person has probably run into the arms of exclusive humanism which promises to give everybody the ability to create whatever meaning in their life they want turning them into their very own Santa for themselves.

Then they discover there is no Santa.

How are you dickhead? :newwink: :hi:
 

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The Lukewarm

I think that would be an apt analogy for most people who embrace disbelief in God and repress religosity, its the same as any other sort of repression too. You're free to choose. Choices have consequences.

Disbelief in a God and belief in a God are two sides of the same coin; the killer, the psychological killer, is indifference to a God.

So then because thou art lukewarme, and neither cold nor hot, I wil spew thee out of my mouth:
- King James Version (1611).
 

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I wonder what my perspectives would have been like if i wasn't given a religious education as a kid.

Me too... Literally all my education except kindergarten and preschool has been religious.
 

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God is a teacher of patience, that is true.

But He also brings so much richness to a life during the waiting.

Living in the world is full of waiting. Waiting for the next paycheck. Waiting for the weekend. Waiting for the next boyfriend or girlfriend. At least waiting with God is purposeful.

Waiting For Godot.
 

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I think that would be an apt analogy for most people who embrace disbelief in God and repress religosity, its the same as any other sort of repression too. You're free to choose. Choices have consequences.
 

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I thought the Old Testament was your thing? It's an incomplete view, but it's not a facetious view.

What's interesting is that the person says they're rejecting God because he's like Santa Claus or the tooth fairy when it's pretty clear the exact opposite is the case and the rejection is based on a perceived lack of beneficence.
Actually, a rejection framed the way it was in this case is usually based on the perceived lack of reality which all these childish fantasies share.
 
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"Listen to me! You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen."

"When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself."
 

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The thread should have started and ended with this :thumbup:

The timeless religious debate that goes nowhere. People's subjective and personal beliefs are their own. You're not going to argue their place into anyone else.
 
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Recently Born-Again Christian Finally Has Social Life

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"Before I joined Christ's flock, everyone used to make fun of me
and call me a weirdo," Dunne said. "But the people at New Hearts
accepted me unconditionally–so long as I accepted Jesus Christ as
my savior. Once I did that, all sorts of wonderful things followed,
like having plans on Friday nights."






Former Cult Members Find New Life In Christ

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Helen Hurley of the Fellowship House in Hanover, NH, where cult
survivors are being given a chance to return to the real world,
be reborn and ascend into Heaven for all eternity through devotion
to the one true Savior, Jesus Christ.


"Look," she said, her expression turning serious, "some of the men and women who have come through the Fellowship House were actually involved in ritual cannibalism at one time. Now they can turn their back on darkness and confusion. They are free to take their first communion, and in the sacramental eating and drinking of the body and blood of Christ, they have been washed of their sins by the blood of the Lamb."

After all, isn't that what it's really all about?
 
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