She had to tell Joseph and her famiy. She was sent away to her cousin, Sarah's place. Mary, being Jewish, knew what the torah said, she knew she would get stoned, regardless of whether it was her fault or not. She knew she would be shunned and possibly stoned. Common sense told me that Mary was raped. Jesus was just a man. I was reared that Jesus was God in the flesh. Nope, he was not. This is my opinion, and Jesus not special. This is all a farce. The resurrection is a farce, tell me how is that possible? Jesus was mentally unbalanced, even his own family sa9d he was. I think a person from myspace made me realize this. He is crazy, and he says some off the wall things.
Religious moderates hold themselves higher than atheiists or fundamentalists. Tell me, how does one become a sophisticated beliver? I read the scritures again, this time I did not ignore the things I wanted to ignore, and just focus on what I liked. I always laughed at the fundamentalists. The Christian religion is built on lies. It was a shock to me to realize that all the beliefs were lies. I could not keep sticking my head in the sand and just ignore all the bad stuff. I remember what Pat Roberston said about Katrina. I remember telling my husband I could not believe he said that, with the lives lost, but yet people would do nothing but pray. Ike came to Galveston 9-13-2008, a lot of people just stayed put and died, they said God would protect them. OK, we had flooding waters, wind that broke off pine trees and they were like bullets, the wind broke the windows in buildings downtown, the homeless were fighting to stay alive, but this person in Galveston stayed in their house over looking the Gulf and ignored the warnings, because he said God would take care of him. PFFT!
Too many things did not add up to me, I have been reading Carl Sagan. When Stephen Hawking said God was not needed, it helped to convince me. No, I do not need religion. I am sure some Christians are going to say, well we don't like religion either, we just follow Jesus. OK, what is that? Don't kid yourself.
I am not a selfish, mean person, have always that way with or without God. I believe this earth is billions of years old.
Thanks so much for doing that, Doni. I realize it may be difficult for you. Truth is sometimes woderful, sometimes a real mutha...but still truth.
ReplyDeleteit doesn't matter if you believe in Jesus or not, it never did, it's what you've done in life that actually matters if there's an afterlife, and if there isn't an afterlife, oh well...
ReplyDeletemost people commit idolatry when they "believe", and that breaks the first commandment... so by not being a "believer", you're probably going to carry on and essentially be the same person you always were (you're not any "more" good or evil now, are you?), but at least now you don't break the first commandment by being a hypocrite
and i say most christians commit idolatry because they make up their own version of Jesus, by picking and choosing what they believe in, or completely ignoring some aspect of what Jesus taught, so they've made up their own Jesus to believe, and if you make up your own Jesus, even if it's only slightly different to the "real" one, then you are worshipping a false Jesus...
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The first time I encountered you, you will not remember... and it is not important anyway.
ReplyDeleteAs for the above... You have gone a long way toward earning my respect in the tone in which you've written this... I read it from the perspective of one who believes, just as I would read the blog of a believer from the perspective of an agnostic or atheist..... And what I like, which you've managed to convey here is a sense of humbleness; that you do not have all the answers, but only know what does not seem logical to you [and indeed it does not to me either]
So that you know: I have no religion whatsoever, other than science. Science tells me that all environments are created, from quantum to microscopic to the infinite universe itself. And this implies.....
And that is the only weakness of atheism, from a scientific perspective. Otherwise I would embrace it, as You, and Temy, and Bob, and many that I respect have done.
Good read, Doni, in any case *2 Kudos*
Kudos to you, for your courage on "coming out" so publicly, so soon after your "deconversion". I honestly didn't know you were such a recent Atheist! I had assumed, from your comments and profound statements, that you'd been a non-believer for a very long time. Well, maybe you have, but just didn't know it. Great post. Keep up the good work!
ReplyDeleteMy original post here from this weekend got sucked up by interwebs aliens or something, and I was trying to recapitulate it lol. But here is the jest of what those words were: You have to be brave enough to question the established paradigm, to weather the criticisms from your group- and there will be slams and personal attacks. Why? because people are afraid. Afraid that what they accept to be reality or true...is not.
ReplyDeleteIt is said that one sure fire way to make a believer into an atheist is to have them read the Bible. Personally I think the default word, faith, is a cop out in this instance. If your system does not bear up to scrutiny and come out even stronger after fact-checking and simple common sense is applied...you got yourself a myth. Which is great for our psyches and working things out in our ID when we watch or read stories, but not so good when you are an adult thinking some supernatural being impregnated a woman, or other such repackaged stories from ancient legends. Or when applying these myths to harming others in this world for the faith- this is dangerous and unacceptable.
Thank you for including me in your word out about your blog. I am honored to read it, and to know you, Doni. Your ideas and opinions are part of your path to your self- and it takes great courage to share them with others.
Tracy
Hey Doni. I haven't done anything with my Blog in Months. But I'm here too!
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