SOLVING LIFE’S MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION
I thought the most important question to answer right was
'Honey, does this make me look fat?'
I thought the most important question to answer right was
'Honey, does this make me look fat?'
THE CHOICE
Imagine I offered you a choice of four gifts: Oooh! I get presents?
• The original Mona Lisa Boring.
• The keys to a brand new Lamborghini Now you're talking!
• A million dollars in cash Woohoo! I'm almost as rich as a TV preacher now!
• A parachute Uh... what?
You can pick only one. Million. Easy. Which would you choose? Million. Before you decide, here’s some information that will help you to make the wisest choice: God dammit, always strings attached. You have to jump 10,000 feet out of an airplane. Million. I can buy a parachute with it and still have lots left over when I get to the ground.
Does that help you to connect the dots? Actually, no. What's this got to do with why Christianity? Instead of dots, maybe I should've brought breadcrumbs so I can get back after whatever bullshit you're about to say. It should, because you need the parachute. I wouldn't need it if you'd just given me the money and left me the hell alone, you sick twisted freak! It’s the only one of the four gifts that will help with your dilemma. Not really. With the million I can buy a gun and shoot you. Then I won't be forced to jump from the plane. The others may have some value, but they are useless when it comes to facing the law of gravity in a 10,000-foot fall. But then again, you're useless all the time. The knowledge that you will have to jump should produce a healthy fear in you—and that kind of fear is good because it can save your life. Remember that. So we have to jump now? Who says? You said, and I already shot you.
Now think of the four major religions: Awww, do I have to?
• Hinduism Can't eat cows. Love beef too much.
• Buddhism Can't stand sitting in silence that much. Need mp3 player
• Islam No way I'm wearing a burka, buddy
• Christianity Okay, maybe I can rethink beef or the mp3 player.
Which one should you choose? The million! Hello!!! I can see I'll have to repeat myself with you an awful lot. Before you decide, here’s some information that will help you determine which one is the wisest choice: You're not gonna shove me out of a plane again, are you? All of humanity stands on the edge of eternity. Eternity? Okay your rant is long, but don't flatter yourself. We are all going to die. Well fuck, who's flying the plane anyway? We will all have to pass through the door of death. Does it have one of those automatic opening mechanisms? Like at the grocery store? Or... what? It could happen to us in twenty years, or in six months,...or today. Or when I shoot you and take the cash. For most of humanity, death is a huge and terrifying plummet into the unknown. So what should we do? The god damned million! Are you hearing me at all?
Do you remember how it was your knowledge of the jump that produced that healthy fear, and that fear helped you to make the right choice? Actually, asshole, the knowledge of the fact you were going to push me out of the plane made me angry enough to shoot you. Remember? You know what the law of gravity can do to you. You know what my bullet can do to you? In the same way, we are going to look at another law, and hopefully your knowledge of what it can do to you will help you make the right choice, about life’s greatest issue. Okay, how many poorly designed metaphors are you going to take me through? I should've brought more breadcrumbs. So, stay with me—-and remember to let fear work for you. Because it always works best for people. Just ask any fascist country.
THE LEAP
After we die we have to face what is called "the law of sin and death."1 We face what? Okay, I get pulled over for going too fast, now I'm gonna get taxed by the man when I'm dying too? Can't you people ever just leave a man alone? We know that Law as "The Ten Commandments." What? Are you fucking kidding me?
So let’s look at that Law and see how you will do when you face it on Judgment Day. Have you loved God above all else? The asshole shoved me out of a metaphorical airplane! Fuck him! Is He first in your life? Is he really that high maintenance? He should be. He’s given you your life and everything that is dear to you. He shoved me out of a fucking plane! What's the matter with you? Do you love Him with all of your heart, soul, mind, and strength? Look, if he needs that much attention, he seriously needs a hobby that doesn't involve shoving people out of planes. That’s the requirement of the First Commandment. Are the other 9 gonna be just as stupid? Or have you broken the Second Commandment by making a god in your mind that you’re comfortable with—-where you say, "My god is a loving and merciful god who would never send anyone to Hell"? You mean, My god is reasonable and not a total asshole who shoves people out of planes? That god does not exist; Only yours does, eh Comfie? he’s a figment of the imagination. So was the airplane, the million, and your ability to reason. To create a god in your mind (your own image of God) is something the Bible calls "idolatry." To create a god and reason for him using bad metaphors, however, is called evangelism! Idolaters will not enter Heaven. Evangelists won't either, because there's a very large NO SOLICITING sign on the pearly gate.
Have you ever used God’s name in vain, as a cuss word to express disgust? What's his name? Wouldn't I need to know what it is first? Because if his name is Bob, I'm in big Bobdamned trouble. That’s called "blasphemy," and it’s very serious in God’s sight. Again, why is this fucker so insecure? If he can't take a joke... This is breaking the Third Commandment, and the Bible says God will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain.
*record scratching sound* Wait, again, how is any of this so far answering the question Why Christianity? All you've done to answer that question is to say Because Christianity says so. That's just fucking stupid, dude! I worship Bob because Bob says clearly that Bob must be worshipped or else. You. Are. On. Crack.
Sigh... I said I'd do the WHOLE thing. *groan* Fine. Here goes...
Have you always honored your parents implicitly, and kept the Sabbath holy? First, my parents failed to honor me, so they can suck it. Second, what Sabbath? Saturday or Sunday? So God'll throw a hissy if I don't party with him on the right day now? Again, what's this asshole's problem? If not, you have broken the Fourth and Fifth Commandments. Have you ever hated someone? I'm trying really hard not to hate you right now, but you shoved me out of a plane. The Bible says, "Whosoever hates his brother is a murderer."2 I'm off the hook! I was only born with one sister. Whew!
The Seventh is "You shall not commit adultery," But I'd have to be allowed to marry in the first place, and you people keep blocking it. Except in Iowa and some New England states. but Jesus said, "Whosoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart"3 Yay! I'm off the hook again! I'd rather fuck her brother. (the Seventh Commandment includes sex before marriage). Have you ever looked with lust or had sex outside of marriage? I've had sex with a married guy outside of his wife's bedroom while she was sleeping. Does that count? If you have, you’ve violated that Commandment. W00t! Still... why Christianity? You're nowhere near answering that question, other than to show me a bunch of its demanding rules and its whiney codependent god. You've given me lots of reasons why NOT Christianity, honestly.
Have you ever lied? I think your theological arguments are sound and intelligently thought out. See? I just totally lied. Ever stolen anything, regardless of value? Like Christianity has stolen most of its ideals from pagan paths before it? If you have, then you’re a lying thief. Yo mamma. The Bible tells us, "Lying lips are abomination to the Lord,"4 because He is a God of truth and holiness. So now he hates lips? This guy's a veritable nazi. Have you coveted (jealously desired) other people’s things? I'm still wanting the fucking million you promised me, you lying plane-shoving murderer! This is a violation of the Tenth Commandment. Oh thank BOB you're out of them.
LITTLE JESSICA Wait... who? The girl that fell in the Texas well?
So that is God’s moral Law that we each will face. We will be without excuse when we stand before God because He gave us our conscience to know right from wrong. Like I know by conscious not to shove people out of airplanes or bombard them with ridiculous metaphors that make no sense at all so as to sales-pitch them ridiculous arguments like these? Each time we lie, steal, commit adultery, murder, and so on, we know that it’s wrong. Okay? So explain foreskins, sex you don't like, or telling my parents where to stick it, which I have absolutely no conscious troubles with whatsoever? So here is the crucial question. On Judgment Day, when God judges you, will you be found innocent or guilty of breaking this Law? On that day, to be honest, I'm gonna be confronting the fucker on why he's so demandingly codependent and insecure! I seriously think the guy needs some time with a shrink. We need to make him a well adjusted God so he won't go off on murderous tangents like that anymore. Think before you answer. Comfie, baby, thinking is not something you need to be telling others to do. Will you go to Heaven or Hell? And we know these to be the only possibilities after one dies because... The Bible warns DING DING DING! Because Christianity says it. Again, WHY CHRISTIANITY? Especially when it's got such a fucked up outlook on death! Also, what's this to do with Jessica? that all murderers, idolaters, liars, thieves, fornicators, and adulterers will end up in Hell.5 So where does that leave you? So far? Laughing at you.
Perhaps the thought of going to Hell doesn’t scare you, because you don’t believe in it. Um... yeah? That’s like standing in the open door of a plane 10,000 feet off the ground and saying, "I don’t believe there will be any consequences if I jump without a parachute." Not really. I can't see any hell anywhere. Can you? If so, maybe we can get you an appointment for that shrink too.
To say that there will be no consequences for breaking God’s Law is to say that God is unjust, that He is evil. Actually, no. I was saying he was unjust for being a whiney douchebag of a god who punishes people so severely over what amounts to damned near nothing at all. Like constantly worshipping the shit out of him all the time. If he's that petty, he needs to burn in his own damned hell. This is why.
On February 24, 2005, a nine-year-old girl was reported missing from her home in Homosassa, Florida. What's not a why. That's as non sequitur as it gets. Three weeks later, police discovered that she had been kidnapped, brutally raped, and then buried alive. Little Jessica Lunsford was found tied up, in a kneeling position, clutching a stuffed toy. I'm confused. What's the point. Is she in hell now?
HOW DO YOU REACT?
How do you feel toward the man who murdered that helpless little girl in such an unspeakably cruel way? Well for starters, given the rape and murder of a child, I'm thinking he has a promising future as a Catholic priest. Are you angered? I hope so. All people would be angered at this, Ray. Religion is not required. I hope you are outraged. If you were completely indifferent to her fate, it would reveal something horrible about your character. And what does this say about God when he never intervenes in all of the injustice in the world?
Do you think that God is indifferent to such acts of evil? Oh you read my mind. I've seen no evidence otherwise. You can bet your precious soul He is not. He is outraged by them. Yet does nothing.
The fury of Almighty God against evil is evidence of His goodness. Or would be, if the big asshole in the sky ever came down and did anything about all this shit. But he doesn't. So either he's indifferent, or he doesn't exist. If He wasn’t angered, He wouldn’t be good. Didn't I just say that? But idiot, you're missing the whole point. What is wickedness but an acting out of the very instincts and penchants for evil that He would've given us upon creation? And you're telling me that any act of evil we do on earth, even the shit your preachers and priests pull off on kids, is going to be worthy eternity in a furnace? You're being a complete moron here. We cannot separate God’s goodness from His anger. Yet you can completely separate the fact he's done nothing at all to fix the injustice in the world from the idea he's indifferent, which would mean evil? Again, if God is good by nature, That's also an assumption about a being you've no evidence of! He must be unspeakably angry at wickedness. Yet... he does... absolutely... NOTHING!
But His goodness is so great that His anger isn’t confined to the evils of rape and murder. No of course not. He freaks out over shellfish eating and somebody gettin' their freaky on, and someone doing a little work on a Sabbath day. That's God's goodness for ya. Nothing is hidden from His pure and holy eyes. Except the fact that gay sex between two consentual adults in love does no harm towards anybody whatsoever, whereas beating a child does. He is outraged by torture, terrorism, abortion, theft, lying, adultery, fornication, pedophilia, homosexuality, and blasphemy. Yet most of it's committed in his name by his believers. He also sees our thought-life, Then he can see how much I'm thinking about how big an idiot you are. And he's probably nodding with me. and He will judge us for the hidden sins of the heart: for lust, hatred, rebellion, greed, unclean imaginations, ingratitude, selfishness, jealousy, pride, envy, deceit, etc. He needs to drop his judgmental attitude. He made us. He should've made us better! Jesus warned, "But I say to you, that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment"6 (emphasis added). And again, why Christianity? Because it'll save us from the very ridiculous god it created? Now that's logic!
The Bible says ALL SORTS OF SHIT! That's not the point. Ray, why Bible? Why Christianity? Because the Bible says so? THAT. DOES. NOT. WORK. that God’s wrath "abides" on each of us He needs to turn his own self.,7 and that every time we sin -i.e. act by the very instincts that god supposedly gave us we’re "storing up wrath -from a god with no room to judge whatsoever- "8 that will be revealed on Judgment Day. Which, let me guess, is coming soon, right? Again, why Christianity? We are even told that we are "by nature the children of wrath"9 (emphasis added) -By the Bible. Again, why bible?- . Sinning against God comes naturally to us—and we naturally earn His anger by our sins. Because nature, or creation, was made that way. He has only himself to blame for all this mess if this is so. As well as all of my suffering. Which means God should go straight to his own hell.
INSTANT DEATH
Many people believe that because God is good Another assumption I don't make., He will forgive everyone For what? Being a human being? and let all sinners into Heaven I don't want to be graciously "let" into anything with that kind of passive-aggressive asshole of a god you got there. But they misunderstand His goodness. By realizing there's nothing good about this bullshit? When Moses once asked to see God’s glory, God told him that he couldn’t see Him and live. The same shtick why the Wizard of Oz couldn't be seen. Pay no attention to the little man behind the curtain. Moses would instantly die if he looked upon God. Is he that fugly or something? Sounds like something a drag queen says when trying on a new dress. Draaamaaaaa!!! Consider this:
"[God] said, I will make all my goodness pass before you...And it shall come to pass, while my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock, and will cover you with my hand while I pass by."10 Another Bible quote. Again, why Bible? Why Christianity? Just because a book said God said something doesn't make it so.
Notice that all of God’s glory was displayed in A book I don't believe in, and for good reason. His "goodness." Wait... his glory (or greatness) is displayed in his goodness. Ray, wake up, man! That has no sense to it whatsoever. Everyone knows you can only display glory in a china cabinet. Goodness is where you keep the fine silver. The goodness of God would have killed Moses instantly -because it's not good, but deadly evil?- because of his personal sinfulness. Yeah, blame it on the person murdered. Moses shouldn't have worn that dress. What utter bullshit. The fire of God’s goodness would have consumed him, like a cup of water dropped onto the surface of the sun. Which is murder. The only way any of us can stand in the presence of God is to be pure in heart. No shirt, no shoes, no humanity, no presence of God? Jesus said, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."11 But as we’ve seen by looking at the Law, not a single one of us is "pure in heart." So why Christianity? Because Christ said so. Ray, you've given me nothing to work with even now. This question is not answered.
These are extremely fearful thoughts That comes to you from a very fearmongering religion called Christianity. So why Christianity? Can you back any of it up? I'm just trying to get you to answer you own god damned question, Ray, please... help me... help me to help YOU!, because the God we are speaking about is nothing like the commonly accepted image. So prove yours is right and theirs is wrong! Why angry asshole god? Why Christianity? He is not a benevolent Father-figure, who is happily smiling upon sinful humanity. He's a whiney douchebag asshole who has to be constantly maintained and appeased or he burns people. Why him?
In the midst of these frightening thoughts, remember to let fear work for you. Because it'l keep you from seeing reason or considering that the boogeyman that might be there (but there's no proof of it) might not really be there at all? The fear of God is the healthiest fear you can have. Because it leads you to sacrificing your own children and eating flesh and blood each weekend? Because it leads you to self-loathing and judgmental attitudes known as bigotry? Because it prevents you from seeing how many incorrect statements are in that book you believe in? Can you please give me some reason for WHY BIBLE or WHY CHRISTIANITY that's NOT in the god damned Bible? The Bible calls it I didn't think so. "the beginning of wisdom."12 Yet the evidence shows, it's the killer of it, since wisdom would cause you to think critically about what you're being told.
Again, your knowledge of God’s Law Which I see no evidence that any God gave me any Law whatsoever. should help you to see that you have a life-threatening dilemma That he's gonna shove me out of a plane.: a huge problem of God’s wrath (His justifiable anger) That's funny, I've heard no justification for his pathetic wrath or even his more deplorable behavior. against your personal sins. I see no evidence for anything I've done being considered a sin other than your own judgmental attitude, for which I frankly have no tolerance. The just penalty for sin—-breaking even one Law—-is death, and eternity in Hell. And what's justifiable about that? Nothing. But you haven’t broken just one Law. And you haven't given even one reason for why bible, and why Christianity Like the rest of us, you’ve no doubt broken all these laws, countless times each. I'm gonna break something off of you if you don't shut the fuck up and actually SAY SOMETHING WORTH SAYING. What kind of anger do you think a judge is justified in having toward a criminal guilty of breaking the law thousands of times? Actually in our legal system a judge is supposed to remove their own emotion and judge fairly. And that judge didn't create me to have the tendencies and nature that I have, so that judge has more reason to be angry than your hallucinated god does.
LET’S SEE Why should you start seeing now? You've dodged it so well all this time.
Let’s now look at those four major religions to see if they can help you with your predicament. In those other major religions, they don't believe in your predicament, as don't I. So why Christianity? Why Bible? Why this predicament? You stil fail, you logic-looping idiot.
Hinduism
The religion of Hinduism says that if you’ve been bad, you may come back as a rat or some other animal.13 And it has just as much evidence of this as you do of what you claim. If you’ve been good, you might come back as a prince. But that’s like someone saying, "When you jump out of the plane, you’ll get sucked back in as another passenger. Just as god shoves me out of the plane, but I go to hell instead of him, who murdered me. If you’ve been bad, you go down to the Economy Class; if you’ve been good, you go up to First Class." The difference between this system, and your god's, is that this actually has some idea of what justice would be, whereas your god does not. It’s an interesting concept, but it doesn’t deal with your real problem You have no evidence of this problem you speak of being real, anymore than you do of theirs being false. of having sinned against God and the reality of Hell. You have no evidence of a reality of Hell either.
Buddhism
Amazingly, the religion of Buddhism denies that God even exists. And has just as much evidence as you do that he does. It teaches that life and death are sort of an illusion.14 Which is no more or less silly than saying life is for worshipping god and death will bring judgment. That’s like standing at the door of the plane and saying, "I’m not really here, and there’s no such thing as the law of gravity, and no ground that I’m going to hit." Actually, that makes equal amounts of sense of saying, Gee, everyone's going to die, but what if you're going to be judged? You better be terrified that there might be judgment, and live in fear! don't you think? That may temporarily help you deal with your fears That I don't actually have and you keep telling me I need to have., but it doesn’t square with reality That you keep redefining and proving you have no grasp thereof.. And it doesn’t deal with your real problem Just because you keep saying 'very real' doesn't make what you've imagined with zero evidence become magically real. of having sinned against God and the reality of Hell. Again with your reality of Hell, for which you have no evidence.
Islam
Interestingly, Islam acknowledges the reality of sin and Hell And therefore is just as nuts as you, and the justice of God, but the hope it offers is that sinners can escape God’s justice if they do religious works Like blowing up infidels, rather than just annoying the shit out of them with tracts and stupid loop-logic. God will see these, and because of them, hopefully He will show mercy Or hopefully he'll see how fucking ridiculous he is.—-but they won’t know for sure.15 AND YOU DO??? YOU KNOW NOTHING AT ALL! YOU BELIEVE!!! WITH ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE WHATSOFUCKINGEVER, YOU FUCKING IDIOT!!! Remember what your Jesus guy supposedly said about the splinter in the other man's eye when you have a huge plank in your own? Does that ring any bells at all, Ray? Any? Seriously??? Each person’s works will be weighed on the Day of Judgment and it will then be decided who is saved and who is not Saved from WHAT??? Why Christianity? Why Bible? Why believe in the shit you're spouting off here? Answer the goddamned question! --—based on whether they followed Islam, were sincere in repentance, and performed enough righteous deeds to outweigh their bad ones. So silly to judge other people for believing something farfetched when you've contorted yourself into all sorts of contrived positions to justify your own, can't you see?
So Islam believes you can earn God’s mercy by your own efforts. That’s like jumping out of the plane, and believing that flapping your arms is going to counter the law of gravity and save you from a 10,000-foot drop.
And then there's the guy who takes over the cockpit because he knows what he's doing and lands the plane, saving everyone on board, and doesn't give the God shit any thought at all. You remember him? When asked why he didn't pray he was too busy dealing with reality, rather than contrived and imagined holy shit. Guess what... he saved everyone on board, and religious people freaked out because he didn't pray while he did it. Ray, I'm not on a plane. It's not crashing. I'm living on the planet earth. I will live until I die. Whatever comes, if anything, I'll meet when I come to it. And if it's set up that I should've guessed which was the right scenario when I get there, then whatever God insisted on such a thing should've given me evidence, or he's nothing but a giant asshole. It's really as simple as that. But in the meantime, there's no evidence, God has written no books, and I have no reason to believe in Bible, Christianity, Ten Commandments, Sin, Fear of some judgmental prick who'll send me to Hell, or even Hell, other than a stupid book that was written by archaic people a long time ago who couldn't even seem to see that the world was round instead of flat, and that the earth weren't the center of the universe, and that diseases come from microbes rather than demons, which cannot be expelled into pigs by a magical sage-like imbicile, and even if they could, what sort of morality is that to inflict upon the innocent pigs? Ray, you've given me nothing to work with whatsoever. Nothing.
And yet, you keep talking... grumble...
And there’s something else to consider. The Law of God shows us that the best of us is nothing but a wicked criminal, standing guilty and condemned before the throne of a perfect and holy Judge. Who created us that way and supposedly has the omnipotent power to fix it, but would rather burn us for eternity. When that is understood, then our "righteous deeds" are actually seen as an attempt to bribe the Judge of the Universe. Or are assigned as part of the rehabilitation as community service. I can tell you this, doing good in the world can make a huge difference, and can even reverse the bad you've done. But what good, please tell, possibly comes out of burning somebody for all eternity? The Bible says ALL... SORTS... OF... SHIT... SO WHY BELIEVE IT? Why Bible? Why Christianity? that because of our guilt, anything we offer God for our justification (our acquittal from His courtroom) is an abomination to Him,16 and only adds to our crimes. And anything God offers me for the justification of his own actions will also be seen as ludicrous. He has no room to judge, really.
Islam, like the other religions, doesn’t solve your problem of having sinned against God and the reality of Hell. And your so-called explanation of Christianity still doesn't solve the problem of why you'd have to in the first place, nor why you choose Christianity. You simply have told me you believe these things because they're in the Bible, and you believe in the Bible because the Bible tells you to. Ray, can you give me anything more than this? I'm paying attention, I'm reading the entire thing like you dared me to. You've given me NOTHING.
Christianity
So why is Christianity different? Are you actually going to answer this, or are you just going to answer it with more The Bible says blah blah blah? Aren’t all religions the same? I've never assumed them all to be the same. Many of them aren't judgmental towards me at all. Let’s see. In Christianity, God Himself provided a "parachute" for us from a problem that only seems to exist because his God put us there with no justification other than he's a bitchy and angry asshole who can't seem to get over himself, and His Word Ray, what did I say? No Bible shit. You gotta give me more than this says regarding the Savior, "Put on the Lord Jesus Christ."17 Can you not see how kinky that is? Just as a parachute solved your dilemma with the law of gravity and its consequences, so the Savior perfectly solves your dilemma with the Law of God and its consequences! It is the missing puzzle-piece that you need.
Perfectly? How can there be perfection in a system where you only are sent to hell not by what you've done or how evil you've been towards others, where there's no redemption from the good you've tried to do, from a God who had no reason to judge you whatsoever since he made you that way in the first fucking place and refuses to accept his own due punishment for design flaw... but that you merely burn or party for eternity based on whether or not you eenie meenie miney moed yourself to the right religion when you've got nothing to go by as solid evidence for it? That's not perfection. That's actually incredibly bigoted as well.
How did God solve our dilemma? Which he created in the first place? He satisfied His wrath which is a sin, thus God sins, so why does God have any right to judge? by becoming a human being and taking our punishment upon Himself. And remember, that's perfectly logical, but reincarnation, atheism, good deeds, and evolution, are all incredibly silly things to think, and the people who think them should go straight to hell for all eternity because of it. Hell, McFly!!! The Scriptures tell us that God was in Christ Yours do, but other Scriptures say entirely different shit. Some say we're reincarnated. So... your point?, reconciling the world to Himself. Christianity provides the only parachute to save us from the consequences of the Law we have transgressed. But no reason to believe in the plane, the parachute, the consequences, the Law, the God, and certainly not why we should believe against the other ideas, especially the ones for which there are evidence.
Am I reaching you, Ray? You've still given me nothing.
BACK TO THE PLANE You gonna shove me off again?
To illustrate this more clearly, let’s go back to that plane for a moment. You are standing on the edge of a 10,000-foot drop. You have to jump. Your heart is thumping in your chest. Why? Because of fear. You know that the law of gravity will kill you when you jump. Or if I don't jump. But if I don't, I could possibly steer the plane to a safe landing. Your metaphor is severely flawed.
Someone offers you the original Mona Lisa. The only way anybody would suddenly do that is if they're fucking nuts. You push it aside. Another person passes you the keys to a brand new Lamborghini. Nobody would do that. You let them drop to the floor.
Someone else tries to put a million dollars into your hands. FINALLY! Jesus, dude, I've been waiting for the fucking million bucks you promised me! You push the person’s hand away, and stand there in horror at your impending fate. Fuck you. I take the money and snatch someone else's chute. I live, I'm rich, and they can suck it. Suddenly, you hear a voice say, "Here’s a parachute!" Oh okay, didn't have to snatch one after all. Now I have money and a chute. You can still suck it.
Which one of those four people is going to hold the most credibility in your eyes? None of them do, because it's a metaphor, and a stupid one at that. Ray, you can't prove something through strangely contrived extapolations. That's all what if. What we need is evidence. Why Christianity. You've bascially said, in case God's as big an asshole as my bible says he is. It’s the one who held up the parachute! Again, it is your fear of the jump that turns you toward the good news of the parachute. -So what? Do I have to live my every waking moment afraid of death? What do I do in the time I'm alive and nowhere near death... walk around with a parachute at all times? Warning everyone else to wear one too? Trying to make converts by handing out tracts with the same ridiculous logic you're spouting off here? At what point do we just live? You can't give me any reason why I can't just live without fear. Ray, you know, some scriptures warn that the world is run by an evil deity who wants you to stay in ignorance of who you are, but if you realize that you're divine yourself, you can transcend that creator's evil imprisonment. Other scriptures tell you that you can make gold out of dirt if you clean the impurities out of it in just the right alchemical order. Yet another scripture tells me Osiris was killed and cut into pieces, but his sister found them, put him back together, then sat on his cock and made a baby. Why Bible? Why Christianity? Where's the evidence?
In the same way, knowledge You have no knowledge, only belief of what God’s Law will do to you produces a fear we tend to call these superstitions that makes the news of a Savior unspeakably good news! I wish it were unspeakable, because then maybe you people would shut up! It solves your predicament of God’s wrath which you've failed to prove. God loves you so much that he gets all uptight if I jerk off or think about someone else besides His stupid ass all the time He became a sinless human being in the person of Jesus of Nazareth Sorry, but I consider nagging a sin, as well as arrogance, and there's nothing more arrogant than claiming to have the only right way to truth. The Savior died an excruciating death on the cross there's the nagging, and he's not the only one to die excruciating death... God killed massive amounts of people in painful ways, and supposedly sends them to eternity in pain for the mere theft of stealing a loaf of bread if you're hungry or obeying your natural instinct to shoot a wad all over a pretty chick or someone of the same sex, taking your punishment (the death penalty) I don't believe in the death penalty for our murderers, btw, so why should I believe in it for someone who simply had an orgasm you can't condone? upon Himself. The demands of eternal justice were satisfied the moment He cried, "It is finished!" Well then why couldn't he have just cried it and gone away? Seriously. It's finished, and then he goes off and has cocktails. See how much easier that is? Then to do the whole drama queen thing of dying and coming back and nagging nagging nagging at us about it.
The lightning of God’s wrath was stopped...
And so are you. You're right. I can't take anymore. I can't get through this. You're driving me up the fucking wall, Ray. You've had nothing, and I have no more patience with you over this. Just give me one point that isn't from the book I already told you I know people wrote, and not God. One point that will give me reason. I'll spare you the trouble. Here's your reason:
You believe just in case. You don't know. And you won't dare question these beliefs critically, nor listen to anybody else when they do, nor recognize evidence for what they've presented, like evolution. That makes it a superstition, not unlike any of the others that exist. And that makes it merely a religion, and its believers a cult.
Wake the fuck up, Ray, and thank you for reading this.
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