[PLUG-TALK] Religion is not bad...

Aaron ke7ezt at gmail.com
Sat Oct 31 05:10:16 UTC 2009


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyp34v6Lmcc

aaron at kalosaurusrex:~$
Discere docendo - To learn through teaching.
Libera Te Tutemet - You, free yourself.




On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 14:37, Aaron <ke7ezt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael,
>
> Question..if god has been around how come the world has never known peace?
> and how come all the time there are major conflicts over religion? Do you
> think that it would be better for christians to try and take over and
> convert everyone that is not christian, or do you think it would be better
> to accept that others have a different view and let everyone believe what
> they wish (as long as they aren't hurting someone else)?  Isn't the choice
> of believing in god (or which god) or not between the person and god?
>
> I don't even understand what you mean "living flesh and living blood".
> That would seem to indicate that God/Christ is a physical being--and I
> haven't as of yet seen either of these entities.
>
> You can say that I have closed my mind to God, but you are incorrect.  I've
> actually studied many different religions and come to believe, on my own,
> that I'm an atheist.  I'm actually very opening to discussing it without
> wishing ill will on the other person.
>
> As for athiests "will be very sorry or they will burn in hell"--I don't
> believe in hell, but if it came down to it I'd rather burn in hell that be
> with the god you represent.  Besides, I'm sure heaven will be lacking in
> beer, vodka, hot chicks and computers--which would make existing forever
> boring!
>
> And actually that does make one other note, I think having the short life
> span that humans have is good. I don't want to live forever. I know I only
> have one shot and I work on making every second of my life the way I want it
> to be.  The idea of spending my life hoping to be loved by some super being
> in the hopes of letting me into his idea of a wonderful way to spend the
> rest of existence--scary.
>
>
> aaron at kalosaurusrex:~$
> Discere docendo - To learn through teaching.
> Libera Te Tutemet - You, free yourself.
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 13:13, Michael Robinson <plug_1 at robinson-west.com>wrote:
>
>> With all due respect, you can't understand what someone believes when you
>> don't
>> yourself believe it if you refuse to properly study it.  Even then, it's
>> questionable whether or not you can understand without believing it
>> yourself.
>> The people who have nothing better to do are the atheists on here who have
>> closed their mind to God rejecting their humanity.
>>
>> Without God, there will be no peace.  There is a saying among Catholics,
>> "The
>> world could longer live without the sun than without the mass."  Without
>> God's
>> living flesh and living blood, there is no life in a Man.  Atheism may be
>> on
>> the rise today, but this cancer will be cured in the end and those who
>> were
>> atheists will either a be very sorry or b they will burn in hell.
>>
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