And here I thought I could string words together rather intelligently. You’ve crushed me. Have a terrific day thinking of new ways to hate the God who created you.
One cannot hate somebody who does not exist Janice.
Prove to us your God exists.
Then and only then can talk about what he created.
"Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God."—Philip Appleman
In Matthew 5:10-12, Jesus says, "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven."
In Matthew 10:22, Jesus assured His followers, "You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved."
Jesus prepared His followers for the reality of persecution, encouraging us to remain steadfast and find hope in our eternal relationship with Him.
Prayers are going up for you, Dennis. May God bless your soul.
“For all you delusional and addicted religious folk who light a candle for me, then verily it shall be immediately bloweth out by me. I didn't ask for your candle to be lit for me. I don't want it. I don't need it. Please have your Candle back. Thank you very much.” – the great atheist Cristopher Hitchens
“The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God and Jesus than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.” - Carl Sagan
I have no desire to be blessed by an invincible mass murderer, Susie.
"Religion poisons everything!" - Christopher Hitchens. Never truer word spoken.
Christianity: The belief that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God.
Religion: People killing each other trying to decide who has the best imaginary friend.
Jesus is only a myth in a very old book of fiction.
And the Christian God started all the killing and genocide in Gaza in the first place.
When one party comes armed with their Bible and a 2,000-year-old promise from their imaginary GOD, rational thinking goes out the window.
The issue will only be settled on the field of battle with iron and rivers of blood.
As we are seeing on Al Jazeera TV every day.
Thousands slaughtered in the name of imaginary GODs.
As it has been done since man invented GOD's.
There will be no winners.
Netanyahu invoked the Biblical reference with the Amalek rhetoric for a blatant call to genocide. "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey." 1 Samuel 15:3. Now 100,000 + have been slaughtered. And their houses, electricity, drinking water and sewage facilities and hospitals destroyed. Because they had the audacity to pray to a different GOD!
And NOT ONE GOD has lifted a finger to stop the genocide.
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of willful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thinking. That "voice" in your head is not God. It is you pretending to be God. It is your "Ideal" self. Freud called it your "super-ego". In short, religious folk all create "God" in their own image.
An atheist reads many books and knows he must learn more. While a Christian partly reads one very old book written by unknown authors and has been edited hundreds of times, and there are many versions of, and thinks he knows everything!
For me, the bottom line is always Truth. The question must always be, Is it True? That is the only way to make the best choices for ourselves, as well as our society. Even the most inoffensive religious belief systems introduce unsupported claims and take us away from the path of Truth, robbing us of the ability to make the best decisions in our lives.
E=MC (squared). E is energy. M is mass. EVERYTHING is either energy, mass or a combination of the 2. I like to think of God as all energy. BTW…this is Einstein’s theory of relativity.
"Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of willful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thinking." Cute, if not clever. You should really try expounding on that.
Oh, btw, 1 million plus Ukrainians killed in a pseudo-war for what? Anti-Communism or Nazism or Nationalism (for a country that didn't exist prior to 1991)... Naw, for the lust of money and power but mostly money. Cheap gods all.
The verse that states that God created us in his image is Genesis 1:27.
It says, "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them".
Another verse that refers to humans being created in God's image is Genesis 9:6, which says, "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image".
My God is The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), the holy deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism.
A Pastafarian prophet of the Venganza forums known as Solipsy received divine guidance and wrote The Loose Canon, the Holy Book of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The book was completed in 2010 and was made available for download. The gospel urges readers to try Rastafarianism for thirty days, saying, "If you don't like us, your old religion will most likely take you back".
Some excerpts from The Loose Canon include:
"I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me (Afterwards is OK; just use protection). The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization". - Suggestions 1:1-5
"Since you have done a half-ass job, you will receive half an ass! The Great Pirate Solomon grabbed his ceremonial scimitar and struck his remaining donkey, cleaving it in two" - Slackers 1:51–52
The New Testament of The Flying Spaghetti Monster: Dinner 2.0 (also known as the New and Improved Recipe) was published in 2018. It became the Holy Book of The Unitarian Church of Pasta and The FSM Revival Church of Ziti.
Some excerpts from The New Testament of The Flying Spaghetti Monster include:
"We need never doubt our Divine Carbohydrate, for even our DNA is shaped like a noodle so we know that pasta is holy" - Book One: The Holy Book of Lasagna.
And I have faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It is my belief that every word in the Gospels is true.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster commands us to go onto every internet site comment section, no matter what the subject, and spread the word of God.
And, as with the Judeo-Christian Biblical God, you are not permitted to ever question it. Ever! That is very offensive to us Pastafarians.
Yeah of course, if the universe had a cause - then it means that your "God" was the cause. So, of all the hundreds of "Gods", it was your "God" who created and fine-tuned the Universe. And 13-billion years later he sneaked some poorly written contradictory scriptures to a few illiterate humans on a teeny tiny planet so that all of the Universe would know him.
Infantile! This gets so old.
How about we don't know?
Then we don't have to invent fairy tales about how this world and human beings came to be! Fairy tales invented by ignorant superstitious men in the bronze age who didn't even know what bacteria was and thought lightning was sent by a God having a bad day.
The Prophecy Failed: Jesus is Never Returning! | Dr. Paula Fredriksen
Tell me you’ve never read the Bible or its history without telling me you’ve never read the Bible or its history. Your arrogance and ignorance are quite astounding.
The Bible is only a book. No different than the Harry Potter fantasy novels.
Christianity - "Here, drink this imaginary poison so we can blackmail you with the imaginary antidote!"
The fact that people today still cite the Bible as a reputable source just shows that the stupidity of humanity knows no bounds. No logical person would believe there is an invisible person in the sky that stalks 6 billion people at the same time. If any ‘God’ was real, they would not require us puny humans or old books to promote them, argue for them, explain for or defend them.
Why would anyone who is intelligent and educated get duped into believing 1st Century/Bronze Age superstition?
Myths based on ignorant men "making shit up" in order to try and understand the natural world.
Without one shred of verifiable, concrete data or experiment-based evidence of a single supernatural "God" or event?
We should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings
The Bible was written, revised and edited many times BY the religious FOR the religious. The last thing it is, is truthful, reliable, unbiased, impartial or a neutral source. Folks that belief the entirety of Bible are willing to sacrifice their humanity on the altar of a book that they can't even prove.
Apologists in a nutshell: "God is incomprehensible, now listen very carefully while I tell you all about him." If what God does is above us, then why do we have all these believers speaking FOR God, or forever explaining him?
Ultimately, as with so many expressions it all comes down to intent. But the next time a Christian says, “Bless your heart,” notice how the sentence is used.
Is it a kind expression of love and concern, or is it what it is meant to be ~ a slap in your face? "I am superior to you. I know truths that are not attainable by you - you are ignorant!"
There's no hate like Christian love, no arrogance like Christian humility and no ignorance like Christian knowledge.
I know He is real because of what He has done for my soul. And because He is faithful and trustworthy, He will right all wrongs and punish all wickedness in His time.
There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God,
The holy dwelling places of the Most High.
God is in the midst of her, she will not be shaken;
God will help her when morning dawns.
The nations roar, the kingdoms shake;
He gives His voice, the earth melts.
Yahweh of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.
Come, behold the works of Yahweh,
Who has appointed desolations in the earth.
He makes wars to cease to the end of the earth;
He breaks the bow and cuts up the spear;
He burns the chariots with fire.
“Cease striving and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”
Yahweh of hosts is with us;
The God of Jacob is our stronghold. Selah.
— Psalm 46:4-11 LSB
Thanks for this good reminder today. 🙂 "Cease striving, and know Me/trust in Me as Adonai."
This is so sad.
This is your brain on religion.
Turned to mush.
And here I thought I could string words together rather intelligently. You’ve crushed me. Have a terrific day thinking of new ways to hate the God who created you.
One cannot hate somebody who does not exist Janice.
Prove to us your God exists.
Then and only then can talk about what he created.
"Religion stalks across the face of human history, knee-deep in the blood of innocents, clasping its red hands in hymns of praise to an approving God."—Philip Appleman
In Matthew 5:10-12, Jesus says, "Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven."
In Matthew 10:22, Jesus assured His followers, "You will be hated by everyone because of me, but the one who stands firm to the end will be saved."
Jesus prepared His followers for the reality of persecution, encouraging us to remain steadfast and find hope in our eternal relationship with Him.
Prayers are going up for you, Dennis. May God bless your soul.
“For all you delusional and addicted religious folk who light a candle for me, then verily it shall be immediately bloweth out by me. I didn't ask for your candle to be lit for me. I don't want it. I don't need it. Please have your Candle back. Thank you very much.” – the great atheist Cristopher Hitchens
“The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God and Jesus than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.” - Carl Sagan
I have no desire to be blessed by an invincible mass murderer, Susie.
"Religion poisons everything!" - Christopher Hitchens. Never truer word spoken.
Christianity: The belief that God sacrificed God to God to save God's creations from God.
Religion: People killing each other trying to decide who has the best imaginary friend.
Jesus is only a myth in a very old book of fiction.
And the Christian God started all the killing and genocide in Gaza in the first place.
When one party comes armed with their Bible and a 2,000-year-old promise from their imaginary GOD, rational thinking goes out the window.
The issue will only be settled on the field of battle with iron and rivers of blood.
As we are seeing on Al Jazeera TV every day.
Thousands slaughtered in the name of imaginary GODs.
As it has been done since man invented GOD's.
There will be no winners.
Netanyahu invoked the Biblical reference with the Amalek rhetoric for a blatant call to genocide. "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey." 1 Samuel 15:3. Now 100,000 + have been slaughtered. And their houses, electricity, drinking water and sewage facilities and hospitals destroyed. Because they had the audacity to pray to a different GOD!
And NOT ONE GOD has lifted a finger to stop the genocide.
Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of willful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thinking. That "voice" in your head is not God. It is you pretending to be God. It is your "Ideal" self. Freud called it your "super-ego". In short, religious folk all create "God" in their own image.
Praying for you out of love Dennis, obviously you are a truth seeker and the great I Am is truth. May you come to know Him before it is too late
An atheist reads many books and knows he must learn more. While a Christian partly reads one very old book written by unknown authors and has been edited hundreds of times, and there are many versions of, and thinks he knows everything!
For me, the bottom line is always Truth. The question must always be, Is it True? That is the only way to make the best choices for ourselves, as well as our society. Even the most inoffensive religious belief systems introduce unsupported claims and take us away from the path of Truth, robbing us of the ability to make the best decisions in our lives.
E=MC (squared). E is energy. M is mass. EVERYTHING is either energy, mass or a combination of the 2. I like to think of God as all energy. BTW…this is Einstein’s theory of relativity.
"Faith is the deliberate refusal to think critically and the glorification of willful ignorance that follows. Religion is the permission slip to set aside truthful thinking." Cute, if not clever. You should really try expounding on that.
Oh, btw, 1 million plus Ukrainians killed in a pseudo-war for what? Anti-Communism or Nazism or Nationalism (for a country that didn't exist prior to 1991)... Naw, for the lust of money and power but mostly money. Cheap gods all.
"Say what you will about the 'sweet miracle' of unquestioning faith; I find a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."—Kurt Vonnegut
The verse that states that God created us in his image is Genesis 1:27.
It says, "So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them".
Another verse that refers to humans being created in God's image is Genesis 9:6, which says, "Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image".
My God is The Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), the holy deity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, or Pastafarianism.
A Pastafarian prophet of the Venganza forums known as Solipsy received divine guidance and wrote The Loose Canon, the Holy Book of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The book was completed in 2010 and was made available for download. The gospel urges readers to try Rastafarianism for thirty days, saying, "If you don't like us, your old religion will most likely take you back".
Some excerpts from The Loose Canon include:
"I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me (Afterwards is OK; just use protection). The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization". - Suggestions 1:1-5
"Since you have done a half-ass job, you will receive half an ass! The Great Pirate Solomon grabbed his ceremonial scimitar and struck his remaining donkey, cleaving it in two" - Slackers 1:51–52
The New Testament of The Flying Spaghetti Monster: Dinner 2.0 (also known as the New and Improved Recipe) was published in 2018. It became the Holy Book of The Unitarian Church of Pasta and The FSM Revival Church of Ziti.
Some excerpts from The New Testament of The Flying Spaghetti Monster include:
"We need never doubt our Divine Carbohydrate, for even our DNA is shaped like a noodle so we know that pasta is holy" - Book One: The Holy Book of Lasagna.
And I have faith in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It is my belief that every word in the Gospels is true.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster commands us to go onto every internet site comment section, no matter what the subject, and spread the word of God.
And, as with the Judeo-Christian Biblical God, you are not permitted to ever question it. Ever! That is very offensive to us Pastafarians.
Reading all that makes me wonder what kind of relationship you had with your father.
How do you think this world and human beings came to be?
Yeah of course, if the universe had a cause - then it means that your "God" was the cause. So, of all the hundreds of "Gods", it was your "God" who created and fine-tuned the Universe. And 13-billion years later he sneaked some poorly written contradictory scriptures to a few illiterate humans on a teeny tiny planet so that all of the Universe would know him.
Infantile! This gets so old.
How about we don't know?
Then we don't have to invent fairy tales about how this world and human beings came to be! Fairy tales invented by ignorant superstitious men in the bronze age who didn't even know what bacteria was and thought lightning was sent by a God having a bad day.
The Prophecy Failed: Jesus is Never Returning! | Dr. Paula Fredriksen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab04gNNskHc&t=24s
Tell me you’ve never read the Bible or its history without telling me you’ve never read the Bible or its history. Your arrogance and ignorance are quite astounding.
The Jesus Lie: The Greatest Deception Ever Crafted | Dr. Nicholas Peter Legh Allen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_kE4V5kQwI&t=518s
Your delusions and gullibility are outstanding.
The Bible is only a book. No different than the Harry Potter fantasy novels.
Christianity - "Here, drink this imaginary poison so we can blackmail you with the imaginary antidote!"
The fact that people today still cite the Bible as a reputable source just shows that the stupidity of humanity knows no bounds. No logical person would believe there is an invisible person in the sky that stalks 6 billion people at the same time. If any ‘God’ was real, they would not require us puny humans or old books to promote them, argue for them, explain for or defend them.
Why would anyone who is intelligent and educated get duped into believing 1st Century/Bronze Age superstition?
Myths based on ignorant men "making shit up" in order to try and understand the natural world.
Without one shred of verifiable, concrete data or experiment-based evidence of a single supernatural "God" or event?
We should stop wasting our time trying to please the supernatural and concentrate on improving the welfare of human beings
The Bible was written, revised and edited many times BY the religious FOR the religious. The last thing it is, is truthful, reliable, unbiased, impartial or a neutral source. Folks that belief the entirety of Bible are willing to sacrifice their humanity on the altar of a book that they can't even prove.
Apologists in a nutshell: "God is incomprehensible, now listen very carefully while I tell you all about him." If what God does is above us, then why do we have all these believers speaking FOR God, or forever explaining him?
Bless your heart.
Ultimately, as with so many expressions it all comes down to intent. But the next time a Christian says, “Bless your heart,” notice how the sentence is used.
Is it a kind expression of love and concern, or is it what it is meant to be ~ a slap in your face? "I am superior to you. I know truths that are not attainable by you - you are ignorant!"
There's no hate like Christian love, no arrogance like Christian humility and no ignorance like Christian knowledge.
I know He is real because of what He has done for my soul. And because He is faithful and trustworthy, He will right all wrongs and punish all wickedness in His time.
Come and Hear
Come and hear the voice of God,
Creator, redeemer, friend
Come and hear Him make a way
For new life to begin.
Come and hear the angels sing
The announcement from on high
Come and hear the joyful news
Redemption has drawn nigh.
Come and hear the newborn babe
Heaven’s hope He brings
Come and hear salvation’s song
In the voice of the infant king.
Come and hear His words of life
That fill and heal and save
Come and hear them echo from
The gloriously empty grave.
Come and hear the Savior call
From manger and cross and throne
Come and hear Him calling out
To draw the lost ones home.
Come and hear Him from on high
The One who reaches down
Come and hear Him speaking life
And be not lost, but found.
Come and hear your soul’s desire
That yearning to be new
O come and hear, every heart
The good news is for you.
©️Janice Powell
Christmas Day 2024
Oh dear!
This is your brain on religion.
It's so sad.
Save it for church, Janice - nobody wants your mindless spam here :)
Magic Sky Daddy went out to get some smokes.
He hasn't been back.