No More Religion

[hora_somni]

So I have decided to go from a semi-passive live-and-let-live atheist to an angry, belligerent, accusatory atheist. Here’s a true story

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[pleasance4]

my thinking... that "pastor" shouldn't be a pastor.... he is obviously a total idiot and jerk... I wouldn't blame "Stan" for leaving whatever church he is in... and I would hope his Mother would do the same... as well as letting whomever this so pastors compadre's know what he did... that is in-excuseable, sick and discusting in my book. The moron should be shown the door.

[jenaiabird]

see, there's where the problem lies... it isn't God who's torturing Stan by making him ill; or punishing him for his choice in activities... I'm all about the Stigmata frame of mind - God isn't in a building, He's wherever you choose to see and find him.

what you've got here is a narrow-minded extremist Pastor who's all too eager to lay guilt and blame for Stan's choices so that he can get more "butts in seats" in his church. No where in the 10 Commandments does it say "Thou Shalt Not Play in Sports," and both history and the bible(s) agree that God is all about a good Army.

[pleasance4]

my apologies... you said it much better than I!!

[hora_somni]

So let's take this one step further; what is God's role in Stan's illness? [I apologize for the use of the masculine pronoun] If he didn't make Stan sick, then why didn't he do somehting about it? Is it that God didn't care? Is it the God is actually powerless to help him? Is God just completely removed from our lives and is noting more than a kid with an ant farm? Is god just so big and interested in so much grander things that our little lives mean nohing to him? Or could it be that we live in a natural world where bad things happen to good people (and bad things happen to bad people, good things happen... and so on) and that's just the way of it? Could it be that there realy is no higher power in command of everything and we're all just here for a limited time so make the best of it?

[pleasance4]

honestly... I don't know the answer to that one.

[wyz_azz]

People suck.

Once he's up and about, Stan should go church shopping. And maybe buy some pepper spray.

[apidae]

My thought was that Stan should have punched the pastor in the nose, and then told him that that was God's way of keeping him humble.

[fishheadned]

When our cat Lespa isn't getting enough attention, she poops all over the house. Sometimes she will sit three feet away and crap right there on the floor in front of me. God's the same way, but instead of pooping, he puts you in the hospital. Makes perfect sense. In fact, I think I remember that from hebrew school classes as a child.

[hora_somni]

And lo, the heavens opened and the great Cat's Ass appeared onto Yehfozala. A great voice spoke; "Be ye witness to my Greatness" and thus did great turds rain down on the Bazirialites for forty days and forty nights.

[dogmashark]

That was in the dead sea scrolls was it not??

[bnsysabeau]

Maybe that's why cats were worshipped *as* gods?