Religion and the Well Meaning People That Promote It
By:Martha on:Mon 10 of Dec, 2007 [11:02 UTC] (718 reads)
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I'm fine with people believing what ever it is they want to believe in. Gods, fairies, yeti, its all fine with me. Usually the yeti groups don't try to warn me every week of an impending attack of the abominable snowman. Those that believe in gods, however, take it upon themselves to make sure I'm well informed of the works of their god or attacks on their beliefs. I think I'd rather hear about supposed people mauled by albino sasquatch.
Last week I got this in an email. Its about a little boy that killed an injured calf and his god told him he understood his grief because the god had once lost a son.
Lessons I learned from this audio:
- Believing someone you've never actually heard from or seen understands you is as good or better than finding a real, living, caring person to understand and comfort you.
- Had the Romans not "put down" Jesus, Jehovah would have milked parables from him for many years.
- If you have an injured animal, its best to have your 13-year old euthanize it.
- An omniscient, omnipotent deity which created a universe knowing that his "son" - whom was himself - would be tortured and killed and now gets to enjoy his "son's" presence with him for all eternity can feel the same way that a little boy does when he is put through the traumatic experiencing of causing the death of a cared for animal first hand. (Maybe this is more how god feels about the trillions of souls he has sent to an everlasting agony for the "broken back" of not having heard of him?)
Questions that I still have:
- Should we feel more sadness from the passing of a pet than a relative because a pet has no soul and its essence is gone forever whereas a human's lives on forever and we may one day be rejoined with them?
- Are Christian radio DJs not concerned that there are children out there wielding lethal measures?
- How many rating points does making a 13-year old's heart breaking experience a tool to promote your radio station get you?
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