What was I going to say again...Oh, yea.
The entire Bible is set up as a 'confusion technique' document.
It evolves to a certain extent but like an old, worn audio disc playing through it's tune, the needle(or stylus) just naturally 'skips' back, hence Creationism, Intelligent Design, Pro-life and other wedge issues.
The wedge issues are an important part of religion as believers want to force their opinions on the less devout.
Believers are on a 'mission from God' to have everyone subject to GOD. This becomes obvious when reading the famous TEN COMMANDMENTS right 'out of the gate', we hear that GOD HAS SPOKEN and he's telling us that it is a CRIME to worship any other god but HIM.
What believers are telling us, is that the church(their religion) IS 'GOD' and that it must be obeyed. They will deny it, of course. They use 'confusion technique' on everyone, including themselves to aviod facing reality.
They believe that there was, in order of appearance, God, various other spirit beings, the universe and all non-spiritual beings and things, semi-spiritual beings which are human beings(or MANKIND as they like to put it), a general 'falling from grace', a very few ELECT(intrinsically GODLY men who recorded history and prophecies of the future) who were IN CONTACT with GOD!(hence their GODLINESS!)
They are confused between 'the good' and 'the Godly' and they want us all to be confused about that too.
Example:- At this point in time(in 'the west') we are clear that slavery is wrong, that subjegating a person is inherently 'bad'.
But the Bible is unclear about this. We hear, in the story of the Exodus that slavery IS bad(for the Hebrews) but later we hear that slavery is not necessarilly unGodly!
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Hi, ABSENCEofGOOD.
I bumped over here from Book Flap, which I looked at due to their receiving the Blog of Note. I wanted to look at your work on Fermat's proof. Unfortunately, I am not quite the mathematician necessary to assess your arguement.
I did look at a few of your other blog entries. I am not sure if you do not care for God, do not care for Christians, or do not care for the concept of God. In any case, paying so much attention to God can put you in a precarious place.
No, I am not going to threaten you with Hell. However, at a point in my life I asked questions and challenged God. He hounded me for months, and I became a Christian in spite of myself.
So, if you don't like God, the idea of God, or Christians, it is best just to ignore them. Otherwise the Hound of Heaven may take to your heals, and you are doomed to eternal salvation and an eternity with those nasty Christians.
Sometimes it is hard to think about.
Oh, and you are right. The Bible is never particularly clear on the slavery issue. One might extend the "Golden Rule," however. It would be hard to embrace slavery as a practice if you were truly willing to be treated the same.
Oh, back to the Fermat thing. I like your attempt to make it visual. Perhaps an animation of some sort? I haven't the skill, but someone does. Perhaps you could engage such a person and make an animated visual. I might then be able to fully follow the argument.
Michael Lockridge:
"So, if you don't like God, the idea of God, or Christians, it is best just to ignore them. Otherwise the Hound of Heaven may take to your heals, and you are doomed to eternal salvation and an eternity with those nasty Christians."
Most of us who do not believe would be quite content to "ignore" Christians (and every other organized religion, for that matter), but that effort turns out to a tall order. Atheists and agnostics generally do not go out "proselytizing", they do not require general tax payer support for their beliefs and institutions by not paying taxes on the income of their churches themselves, they do not try to impose their practises or beliefs on anyone else (at least not in the public, secular arena), and they rarely are guilty of ostracizing or imprisoning people who do not agree with their lack of belief "for their own good". In short, if Christians would truly "love" everyone else (for which read respect), as I believe you are taught, we could wait around for God to "hound" us by giving us the wisdom to see the truth in Christian teachings. At that point, please have at us, so that we may perhaps realize all the eternal benefits you now enjoy.
It is unfortunate that we all have to deal with the left-overs of history, both good and bad. Part of that is having religion to one degree or another imbedded in our political and social cultures.
I, myself, am both a Christian and a Libertarian. I am all for removing these artifacts from government, and optimizing liberty for everyone. That would allow all beliefs to interact on a relatively level playing field.
Or so I idealize. History, alas, is history, except where edited for nefarious purposes.
Oh, and the warning was sincere. I had no intention of becoming a Christian. The Hound of Heaven drove me into the fold. I am not sorry for that. I was just sharing what I experienced. Pay too much attention to God and He might notice.
As a fellow victim and beneficiary of history, I wish you the best.
michael lockridge, you say, "So, if you don't like God, the idea of God, or Christians, it is best just to ignore them. Otherwise the Hound of Heaven may take to your heals, and you are doomed to eternal salvation and an eternity with those nasty Christians."
I can see that you're getting into the 'spirit' of my post there with that there couple of sentences.
It's like you're saying, "Confusion, I'll show you confusion!"
I don't recall anyone ever mentioning the 'Hound of Heaven' ever.
"Scooby-don't" is it then?
Actually, the Hound of Heaven is my own description of my last few months as an unbeliever. Probably most Christians would refer to it as the Holy Spirit. The image in my mind is that of a Border Collie diligently bringing in a lost sheep. None too gently.
However, the image of "Scooby-don't" is pretty amusing.
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