My favourite bible verse... "Pride goes before a fall". I think of this verse very regularly, and it mostly applies to me, when I think I'm good at something because of my own merits, often what I think I'm good at soon after spectacularly fails. In trading, if I think I'm a good trader, often I get a good hiding following very shortly. Christians can do well to think this, they have through their own merits and efforts found the key to life. Never mind the christ died for you etc story, "You are on the winning team"....... ....."I'll pray for you, you poor lost miserable wretch, you man of the gutter who needs saving and I hope to get you saved through MY prayers". Nothing could be further from the truth. Pride goes before a fall. Christianity, proud that you (and your brethren) are right.
Won't happen. She went to the other place. My buddies down there are having a hell of a time with her.
Lets play a stupid christian game, there is a devil, satan, lucifer! The christians created this monster, so lucifer and his demons are real in their minds. All religions except christianity are false, deluded, evil, therefore of the devil. Somehow, I don't know how, but christianity religion (they believe) is impervious to the devil. Despite the fact human pens wrote the bible, sinful humans constructed the bible, that the clergy is rife with corruption, satan just can't get a toehold into christianity. Never mind the fact humans have been made slaves of the church, toiling to build cathedrals which now lay empty, a huge expense for something to sing songs in and preach about hope and eternal life, good for nothing else other than the odd funeral, wedding or baptism. Yes, christianity, the gospel of excuses, when things go wrong blame someone, oh I know who, the devil! Christianity, the religion the devil has not contaminated because the believers dont want to believe its contaminated. You see, christians want to invent a devil, but wont accept responsibility for the fact their story is flawed, they want to believe only others are vulnerable, not them, "ooohhhh noooo, not me". Christians, deluded because they are content in their delusion.
Nah, It wasn't even close. Evilmouse (cute name for him -- I like your humor) was never really tempted to leave the "dark side". I am trying to decide if I should respond to his latest rant. The thing is, I agree with a lot of what evilmouse (Ya, I like his new nickname) just said. The Catholic Church has always been way off center and a Pope created church, and the Protestant Church of the last 75 years is the Laodicean Church of Revelation who Jesus said "Because you are lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth". So, I understand your lack of respect for the Church and many shallow pompous Christians. I myself have not attended a service in the Church I am a member of, for probably the last 7 or 8 years. So let me ask you guys a question before I decide if I want to play Evilmouse's "stupid christian game". How did you get to where you are in your belief system? How did you come so strongly to believe in something that leads you to a death without hope? Why do you defend it so? It would appear that someone bearing good news and the hope for a better eternal future would be received more seriously.
From the pain of realizing the promises of the bible ring hollow in reality, I've already in a previous post linked some of these. Only a fool continues to follow nonsense. Death without hope is a christian myth toward the 'unsaved'. You believe in christ's hope, little kiddies hope on Santa, others have hope in Lotto, others have hope in being happy as a millionaire....etc. Who said I despair of death? To hopefully get you guys to think outside of closed cultist minds, to get you to think for yourself for once rather than think conditioned thoughts of the church. Your good news is my fake news. If for once you could see the bible and church as man's work, your thinking will change, but I doubt it will happen, your minds are LOCKED! You are happy your minds are locked.