the following scriptures given show the reasons why i cannot worship the god of the bible.
call him jehovah, yahweh, yhwh, lord, father, jesus, whatever you will.
the passages are taken from the new world translation, because we are all familiar with it and also it was the only one i really had at hand.. gen 3:16 ... " to the woman he said: 'i shall greatly increase the pain of your pregnancy; in birth pangs you will bring forth children, and your craving will be for your husband, and he will dominate you.
Christianity is just a continuation of Judaism which is an ancient religion which like pretty much every religion of it's era liked it's god's bloodthirtsy and killing, that's what god's did thousands of years ago. Unfortunately for christianity because it is built on this very old religion it cannot escape this past so has to invent ways to justify what would otherwise be seen as shocking behaviour.
God is love! hahahaha yeah sure, and I can fly
while this may be construed as a rebuttal to nvr's thread re: why i post about atheism, that is not my intent.. it is my intent, however, to show how i developed a belief in and love for the god of the bible.. my paternal grandfather, who died before i was born, was a baptist preacher, so you could say i cut my teeth on the bible.
i loved having it read to me, and once i learned how, reading it for myself.
i'm convinced that spirituality runs deep in my blood.. i've always had such a strong sense of right and wrong that injustices make me literally sick.
Sorry that list is loaded, as well as a bit silly
JW's - Believe in God
Christians - Believe in God
Atheists - Don't
JW's believe in a "reward"
Christains - believe in a "reward"
Atheists - don't
These are the fundamental and only real important differences
i am surprised there is no thread yet.
tonight's the night.
i guess greece will be the winner.
This competition is a joke, oh well if it makes small crappy countries feel better about themselves by voting for each other then so bet it awwwww bless. It has got to the point where you can pretty accurately predict which counties other countries will vote for. UK joint last?? Come on the song was a not a winer but there were FAR worse songs. I think the the likes of Spain, the UK, Germany and France should just boycott the stupid thing until they introduce a voting system that is not clearly rigged
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=helb1voglc0 .
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=u-3rlx_4y5y&nr=1 .
any thoughts on planet x ?.
Could someone care to explain why my logic is flawed? Saying it is does not make it so
cos its cooler than anything else.... well at least while im alive any way .
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I used to believe in God, he was a big part of my life
Then I grew up
while this may be construed as a rebuttal to nvr's thread re: why i post about atheism, that is not my intent.. it is my intent, however, to show how i developed a belief in and love for the god of the bible.. my paternal grandfather, who died before i was born, was a baptist preacher, so you could say i cut my teeth on the bible.
i loved having it read to me, and once i learned how, reading it for myself.
i'm convinced that spirituality runs deep in my blood.. i've always had such a strong sense of right and wrong that injustices make me literally sick.
Stupidity, indoctrination, lack of intelligence/imagination
That should get you started
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=helb1voglc0 .
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=u-3rlx_4y5y&nr=1 .
any thoughts on planet x ?.
Yes I know of the theory of wormholes I also know that in all probability then would be neither stable or anywhere near large enough to make travel between them realitically feasible.
I believe in extraterrestrial life, it would be foolish to think it does not exist with the ridiculously large number of planets already discovered and the potential for countless more. However as for inteeligent life and life vastly more intelliget than us ..........I'm not sure, and even if they do possibly exist it would be too convenient for them to bewithin space hopping distance to us. Another thing to think about is light years, if we look at a star a few thousand light years away pondering whether or not it has life we have to remember that that particular star we are seeing is kinda a few thousand years ahead of us in a manner of speaking which in terms of an advanced civilisation could be the difference between survival and extiction, we came close to nuclear annihilation ourselves mayve some societies are not as fortunate on their route to advanced intelligence, maybe with civilisations going extinct for various reasons there are only a very small number of advanced civilisations at any ONE time and they could be seperated by universal space not galactic space
Anyhoo I certainly do not believe that aliens travel all that way to stick a probe up some redneck farmers ass in Iowa
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=helb1voglc0 .
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=u-3rlx_4y5y&nr=1 .
any thoughts on planet x ?.
Huh huh folding space eh!
ok
I heard some aliens have been observed coming form Uranus
just wondering if anyone was going to one of the conventions that start this weekend in the us?
if so it'd be interesting if it was recorded and could be posted to hear if there are any other new changes and to confirm previous announcements regarding it.
OTWO
Are we to assume that conventions are not your idea of fun?
What is wrong with you man? Where else are you going to get your spiritual banquet of joy?
i'm not necessarily asking for the big stumbling blocks here or things you discovered once you started doing your own research outside the borg.
i'm talking about the smaller things.. for me one thing was the talk of no one being able to become a witness unless "jehovahs drew them to him".
as a born-in this never jived with me.
The fact that this amazing super deity has an inferior set of morals to me. I really had a problem with OT God and his murderous, petty, jealous rampages.To be honest the guy just pissed me off. Wiping out 187000 here, a generation of kids there. Then to rub salt in the wound King David basically kills a man so that he get his stone slinging paws on a bit of skirt and God is all like "oh that's ok Davey, say you're sorry and we are cool" come on what a load of rubbish
