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Thread #136620   Message #3120785
Posted By: Little Hawk
24-Mar-11 - 07:39 PM
Thread Name: BS: Fired for not believing in hell
Subject: RE: BS: Fired for not believing in hell
Never make the mistake, josepp, that everyone who doesn't think exactly as you do about everything is a complete idiot. ;-)

Not all Christians buy the notion that Jesus died for other people's sins (though I think the majority of them do). I never bought it. It's not an aspect of the teachings about Jesus that makes any sense to me at all.

You say that "God must be the biggest fucking drama-queen in the universe"? No...it's the people who make up the drama-queen stuff about God who are the drama-queens. Those people were mostly a bunch of ancient Hebrews and early Christians from a very different time...that is, the guys who wrote the various books in the Bible. They were the drama queens. They said it the way they saw it...I don't buy it. But there is some of it that I find acceptable. I don't buy everything our present society's authority figures say either, as far as that goes...

Of course God would forgive the whole world! Why not? But those Hebrew patriarchs weren't forgiving, see? They held grudges and carried out blood feuds and believed in revenge, so naturally they envisioned a God who was like that too.

You will look at the Christian religion and only see what you want to see if you're like most people, josepp. It's quite clear that what you want to see in the Christian religion is only the most negative aspects of it. That's what Hitler saw when he looked at the Jews: only bad stuff.