by smiddy3 2 Replies latest jw friends
You might as well ?
Be my guest :
believe in :
Santa Clause
The Tooth Fairy
Big Foot
Bunyip`s
The Loch Ness Monster
The Easter Bunny
Satan
Angels
Jesus
Jehovah
Any God of your choosing
the Governing Body of JW.
These last six are just as relevant as those who preceded them
Why ?
Because we have had exactly the same response from all of them, nothing of any value for our well being either for now or in the future.
When I was twenty I went to the pioneer school and eagerly awaited the section on faith because I struggled with it. There was nothing in it to help me, it basically concluded we believe because we want to believe. When I mentioned this to a fellow student she jokingly called me an apostate. How prophetic were her words!
The Yeti theory of God.
https://afkimel.wordpress.com/2015/07/07/fr-robert-barron-on-the-yeti-theory-of-god/
I like the quote from Wittgenstein, that it's now how the world is that's astonishing, but that it is at all.
