This post is too long,...don't bother reading...
I'm going to do it. I try so hard not to, but I can't hold it. I'm so frustrated with religion, & the practice of but I will try to be as honest about my thoughts.
I've tried to be a believer in Christianity many times. I fought hard to believe but more overwhelming evidence staked against it tenfold. My mom believes I just miss the point & don't get it even though she seems incapable of understanding any logic I explain. So it is clear that rationale plays no part in hoping for an afterlife. I see too many wrongs with religion to deny pointing them out. Far too much.
Yet, week after week, year after year people gather in a luxurious building called church to pump up their egos, & convince themselves that they're doing all they can do. But in a Christian's mind what's the point since it all evens out in heaven? Christians see Heaven as the "do over" that relieves them of any real responsibility. Sitting in a beautifully built air conditioned church doesn't feed the starving, end wars, or bring prosperous world wide peace, but hey whose to argue with the Christians they're doing the best they can to relieve guilt?
That's clear logic, but I'm positive any & all Christians will find a way to cop out & deny plain logic.
So let's skip to scientific evidence. A few weeks ago a human footprint was found in a lava bed dating back 40,000 years.
Here's the boring link to that story. The Bible's construction as a body of 1 began roughly 2,000 years ago with the sons born of Adam & Eve dating back 6,500 years. Clearly our existence as a humans far reaches the Bible, but Christians will deny that too.
Estimated existence of humans as Neanderthals & beyond to be at roughly 175,000 years & in all that time we just happen to be lucky enough to catch Jesus at the right time. All those unlucky people born before the ten commandments just got a bum deal apparently.
Christians ignore science because to them ignorance is bliss. From an early age we're taught that magical beings watch our every move. Santa Claus & the Easter Bunny just some how know everything.
Just like how everyone seems to want to think the Bible is the Earth's instruction manual. The old guys that wrote it haven't come back to life to refute it so to a Christian if it's old & written by dead people it must be true.
Besides who knows what happens after death really?...NOBODY!!!
But that's the point, the joke , the pun - How can you get people scared, & fear something that has no physical proof? Easy, promise them something nobody can prove.
Of course the Bible defines Jesus as direct descendant of God as if any of us weren't.
To a Christian the possibility that Jesus could have had a twin stand in as his ressurecteè is HARESSY!
Mary Magdalen had trouble recognizing Jesus after only a few days. Stunt double? NO! People back then were incapable of lying, & staging fake performances or miracles. Besides there was like a whole handful of them that would have had to lie. Old people back then couldn't lied, & especially not 12 or 15 of them based on hear say. IMPOSSIBLE!...Yeah right.
Jesus if being the true God on Earth (born from a VIRGIN, cause nobody witnessed the heavenly sperm enter) , why didn't he do useful things like write down the cure for cancer on paper? Surely a direct manifestation of God would understand all literally text & be able to predict man's most troubling illnesses & would understand the importance. Maybe Jesus was lazy & wanted us to learn it all ourselves, or maybe it was all science fiction similar to Star Wars, but the only difference is we know George Lucas created Star Wars, & we know he intended it to be fiction.
None of the logic matters to a Christian. All that matters to a Christian is:" It makes me feel better as a person & respect life as a good (full of bullshit) person."
It's shame that we as advanced as we are as people still need fiction to instruct us on such basic laws of humanity.
There's one rule we should all live by: Don't hurt other against their will. It's simple.
That's really all you need in my opinion, but that's not good enough for Christians apparently.
I left in the "against their will" because I know some people might like rough sex, so you gotta kind of keep that flexible too.
I hate the Christians telling me how to think, what to watch, what not to watch, what not to look at, what not to listen to.......blah
For a culture of people supposedly concerned about their own spiritual purity they surely love dedicating lots of time to tell non-Christian what they ought not be doing. Fuck. I'll be burnt in the fiery pits of hell then.
As a non-believer in Christianity & as many of us would agree we don't mine Christians doing their thing. Even though we clearly see their beliefs as irrational we don't stop them because we say live & let live. Not good enough to a Christian though. They have to pass laws, vote in people who will pass their laws, & make what they call sin illegal...& that's when I as a non-Christian ask:"WTFIUWTMFBS!?"
You Christian's wanna talking to an invisible man that never really fixes anything fine, but please stay away from making my freewill illegal or eventually we'll have to fight back.
Stop allowing Government money to build churches, & stop treating people who speak to invisible men in the clouds (God) as anything but people in need of clinical mental medical treatment.
I could go on....but why bother.....People believe what they want, or whatever suits their needs at any given time.
Joe goes to church because it makes him look good to his fellow church goers...blah
Bob's a good God fearing family man....blah...
Both Joe & Bob are actually gay lovers behind close doors...
That's another thing that pisses me off too. People are born gay, & yet Christians treat it as an affliction. Science has proved that sexual orientation doesn't always develop in human brains until long after birth.
Christian's once again says:" Science , bah-humbug."
Christian's will ignore the most profound law, if God made a person that way then God intended such, but no Christians see Earth as God's playground filled with land mines, unless it is financially conducive to the church.
I seriously doubt that a God that could create all would care about our day to day lives since if such a God existed could destroy the Earth & all of the Universe as many times as he'd like & remake it. Of the vastness of all matter to a God would any of our daily problems matter good or bad to such a being? So far the evidences confirms no physical response from God. People still die starving, hurt, etc.
Either God's an idiot , or really lazy....or just isn't concerned with real misery, or people. We could be the byproduct or something else. Ever consider that? No.
The 2,000 year old book has all the answers & seems to have suited everyone else, so we think, I must be real shit for it to not work for me, so I'll humor them all & say:" I've found God, & feel much better about my life."
Good job asshole, you've managed to fool yourself & fit in with an eleet group of fellow assholes that enjoy filling their money pouches,baskets or which ever money collecting object suits the decor.
Can we imagine life after death, or not being here?
Well, I can't remember what it was like before I was born so I'd have to think death is pretty much the same way. Simple idiot logic there.
Perhaps I do remember swimming laps from testicle to testicle but I can't be sure.
Would the world end in ciaos if people stopped living for an imaginary after life? I'm thinking no, but there would be big changes. People might stop throwing money at bullshit churches, which would be a big step forward. Church's donations to the needy & their prayers never seemed to have worked anyway after 30 plus years.
Sure, it might get ugly at first with no lies to kiss up to but eventually it would balance out. Then after the dust settled some asshole would try to invent another belief system that convinces people breathing air is sinful. Some idiots will then buy into that bullshit too in hopes that they too will gain financial advance.
There is so much I did not cover here, but this is already too long.
Take for example the way Christians believe everything happens for a reason & that God uses magic to punish those that did wrong.
If someone does something bad chances are it will catch up with him eventually & that has nothing to do with magic, or karma. The guy had it coming, plain & simple.
Christians love justifying bad luck as God's payback & disasters as the devil.
Should some sick perverted social menace strung out on drugs clean up & decide to stop torturing people he might then say:" I'd found God & have become a better person bowing to my higher power." To which I respond, congratulations for trading in one kind of crazy for another. Leave it to the magical spirit called:'GUILT' the ability to finally catch up.
People want to believe in an afterlife. People are selfish. People want more than what this life has to offer. People think there has to be meaning to everything, because just plain ole 50/50 chance isn't good enough.
People want to believe that they get good points for doing good deeds.
People want to believe that they are here on Earth for some other reason than shining up their own ass to be kissed by others.
Unfortunately that's exactly what religion offers; delusions of granger among fellow humans that believe if you gather enough people to believe the same thing eventually it will make it true regardless.
Meanwhile those unlucky souls living in poverty for over 40 years for whom your prayers have never worked, oh well.....Happy hopes of heaven to you guys. We're too busy admiring each other's clothing fashion each Sunday to help you.