I hate to inform you of yourself, but if you were comfortable with your status you
wouldn't have began a topic such as this.
I hate to inform ye that I am not Hegel, and you are not me. But let me inform ye of mine true intentions nevertheless:
that in my first forays, I truly wanted to bash heads with others to find any weak spots in the arguments that I find
about atheism. So it isn't as much as doubt as it is a diligent search for kinks in the theory. That, and I hoped
then (and still hope now) that I could smoothen my discourses this way.
I read so many posts around the www. on this topic, and it never ceases to amaze me how
many people get involved in conversations about God and say He doesn't exist. but yet have never one time picked up
the Bible and read enough of it to have any intelligence as to where they base their beliefs on... People are so lazy
when it comes to their study of God's holy word yet so bold to make judgments as to what God is.
You are not alone in that opinion, my deer. Both sides need be counted on this one - believers and unbelievers both,
which is such a dismay for (well, I am the one talking here) I like knowing my enemies (in the biblical sense if need
be). Needless to say, I read the Bible, but choose not to spin the good parts and shit on the bad.
Yet true Christians who have studied the Bible enough to know God are looked at as
religious nuts for believing in a God that has revealed himself to us and asked to prove it by fools who are unwilling
to do what it takes to learn the truth.
Because they - as they believe every fucking word of it, and neglect to omit those that the rest of humanity would find
reprehensible - have a tendency to, well, commit atrocities that no fornicator or masturbator would dare do, to
paraphrase Hitchens (if imperfectly)? Look (to narrow our eyes at Christianity) at Calvin and his Geneva. Look at the
Jews and the Roma through the centuries, till the Final Solution. Look at Calvin and his Geneva. Look at the history of
slavery and segregation. Each and every one of the instigators of these atrocities called upon God to soak their hands
in blood. These events may not prove that the Bible is evil, but at least these would prove that unflinching belief in a
deity that is chronicled to command his people to do the crassest things is such.
(Well, a digression: if you in your studies choose to omit the book of Leviticus for whatever reason, you aren't
Christian enough. Whatever that means.)
My beliefs haven't come from some church some where, they have come from thousands
of hours studying, not only the bible but world history, writings of Josephus, Philo, the copper plates of the Essene,
Dead Sea Scrolls, and the list continues on to the archeological studies of Jewish culture, and countless other books. I
know what I am talking about and in order for all of you to know the truth, you will have to do the studying on your
own, because you will never believe the words of another person, you must learn the truth on your own. The message of
God is just not believable to those who are unwilling to learn on their own. Sorry for the bad news but that is just the
way it is. You must Read, Read, and Read some more if you are to learn the truth.
Apparently I read, read, and read. My studies (if ye could call them that) have not been as far-ranging or as meticulous
as yours (or at least you claim), but I do read, and read extensively so I can fire back to people like ye. But so you
will at least put yourself at ease: I have tackled philosophy, world history, theology, the Bible, and the Q'uran
(this through translations, especially the Syriac-Aramaic translation by Luxemburg). I am currently reading the
deuterocanonicals and am dabbling on the Zohar when on the mood to read it (best served with Novalis, with a dash of
Avila on the side).
And still I am so not into your truth.
P. S.: If you are wondering why I tackle these all, ask Joyce.
And, yeah, I'm a college dropout.
