Do you reject god? The one who claims to have created, where there is no creator. The one who demands adoration, and proudly owns jealously and violence, threatens us with suffering and eternal torment? The one who claims omniscience and omnipotence, and still requires belief and praise? The one who prefers men and slanders women and leaves children unprotected? That god?
I reject him.
And all his works. And all his empty promises.
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At first I thought you were talking about Trump the Chump.
I case you weren't, I could never accept that vision of he whom Man hath named. Especially in my childhood Baptist days; too much violence and selfishness attributed to him and all the fraud committed by humans who claimed to speak for him.
Who was it who referred to god as the Benevolently Indifferent?
Crow,
Well, if it fits, I won't deny it.
I am reading a very interesting book about a seeker who tries to understand Christians though she isn’t one. Your question fits into the thoughts inspired by the book.
be well... mae at maefood.blogspot.com
That I do reject.
There is something...perhaps we are here to find out the answers to questions like Why? But I cannot put a name to it.
Yes, I have for many years; nay, decades. Since the Presbyterians who taught me in college tried to convince me there was something but I just needed to "have faith." I'm afraid I'm too much of an empiricist for that.
Mae,
It happens with most philosophies that become religions, they lose their point and their heart.
gz,
I will not deny the liminal and the transcendent, the glorious truths.
Cat,
Catholic for me. Left me cold and resentful. I'm no good at belief, I like knowing or not knowing.
i don't reject god.
i approve of your sentiments, but i feel that your repudiation of god gives him more credit than he deserves.
it's hard for me to reject a thing that simply isn't there. i can't waste time being angry at a fictional character.
i CAN, though, conjure up a great deal of anger at the people who prop up the fairy tale and use it to exploit others. i am terrified of the believers who consider life as pointless in favor of their nonexistent eternity with the approval of a deity that simply isn't.
that whole concept of submitting to pain in this world for a future reward? that's some sick bullshit right there. the idea that armageddon is a thing that we should aspire to and work to bring it about? that's why mike pence can't be bothered to wear a mask. he's doing god's work.
but i know some people who would be lost without their fictional character. good, gentle people who are victims of the lie, who are right in nearly every way except their weird devotion to the fiction. it's a difficult cognitive dissonance to carry.
people are terrible. and glorious.
what a weird species.
flask,
I woke with the baptismal questions going through my head, the question was "Do you reject Satan, and all his works, and all his empty promises?" Rejecting god as well is part of my path through grief as I excise the old dead tissue.
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