Do you think that by mocking God, you empower yourself or in anyway benefit your own happiness? Lets say I told you that all people go to either heaven, a good place, or hell, a bad place, when they die. If you said that you know that nothing happens when you die but that one just ceases to exist and it turns out you were right, then great, neither of us loses so it doesnt matter what I believe now does it? But if I was right and you were wrong, then you just took the biggest gamble with your soul. So why not stop misleading people and bringing in publice notability and fame for yourself. Jesus Christ doesn’t need you to believe in him. You need you to believe in him. I hope you will have read this with an open mind. I do apologize on behalf of my fellow Christians for anything they have done to alienate you.
-Jonathan Newman
you guys are crazy you are beliving in FOOD. do realize this? you think that whoever created this world is a Italian FOOD dish that is rediculous. if you ask me its just a sorry excuse because are scarred to actually believe that God exists and he created the world.
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It sounds to me like you are the one that is afraid. Why do you fear the FSM so? Food allergy perhaps?
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To tell you the truth, I’m very scared that the Christian God (I assume that is who you meant by “God”) is real. He’s one seriously mean and vindictive SOB. However, the fact that he hasn’t struck me down with a bolt of lightning yet means that either he doesn’t exist, or he doesn’t give a shit. Either way, I’m in the clear.
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Lighten up and have some pasta.
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OEJ
Hey, hey,
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‘you guys are crazy you are beliving in FOOD.’
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Quite a thin fellow, are you?
“Do you think that by mocking God, you empower yourself or in anyway benefit your own happiness? ”
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Yes
“Lets say I told you that all people go to either heaven, a good place, or hell, a bad place, when they die. If you said that you know that nothing happens when you die but that one just ceases to exist and it turns out you were right, then great, neither of us loses so it doesnt matter what I believe now does it?”
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Thats the kind of moral cowardice I’d expect from a Christian!
“Jesus Christ doesn’t need you to believe in him. You need you to believe in him”
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If thats the case why do you fools try so hard to force your beliefs on others?
Taking the same quote from Jonathan Newman as Darwin’s Monkey:
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‘Lets say I told you that all people go to either heaven, a good place, or hell, a bad place, when they die. If you said that you know that nothing happens when you die but that one just ceases to exist and it turns out you were right, then great, neither of us loses so it doesnt matter what I believe now does it?’
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This reminds me of a story I heard a couple of days ago in an interview between Ken Ham (creationist, author of ‘The Lie: Evolution’ and all-round God-fancier) and Carl Denby (creationist, admirer of ‘The Lie: Evolution’ and all-round Ken Ham fancier). Carl tells of a time in his career (he’s been an air traffic controller for years) when he was spending hours in a cockpit talking with the pilot and co-pilot. He found that the three of them were all Christians. As they discussed their faith, one of them told Carl of Ken’s book, which destroyed Carl’s fanciful preumption that science and Christianity could get along together. Carl read the book, threw science out of the window and filled up all the space he’d thereby cleared in his brain with more religion.
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Heartwarming, isn’t it?
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Hypothetical situation. The plane’s going down. I’m a passenger. Things aren’t going well. Now, whom do I want in the cockpit?
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Option (a): Three guys who’ll try to rescue the plane but who are also thinking ‘Well, if we can’t rescue it, I guess that’s God’s will! We’e going to heaven after all, and so are the passengers – as long as they’re Christian.’
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Option (b): Three guys who’ll do every damn thing they can do to rescue that plane because they recognise that they haven’t got a shred of evidence that there’s anything after death and that it’d be criminally irresponsible to treat a living person in your care as though you knew what was going to happen to them after theirs?
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I suspect there’s a case to be considered that people who believe in an afterlife should be barred from jobs in which they have responsibility for other peoples’ lives. (I know George W. Bush and Tony Blair read all my posts with great interest, so I’m sure they’ll take this point to heart.)
What if neither of us are right but somebody in the other two thirds of the world’s population is?
And your apology helps, it really does, but the ER helped a whole lot more (and most of the people there were smart enough to realize that restricting their life for some stupid religion was kind of silly).