Of course, not a mention is made as to the beliefs (or regarding the believers) of Islam, Buddhism, or Hinduism. Although this reinforces, in my view, the validity and uniqueness of Christianity (and the craven cowardice of the site's authors), it is intriguing that the site repeatedly utilizes the word "delusion" when referring to Christian believers.
Yet another marker of the rapidly-approaching end times, and a signal to believers to put on the full armour of God.
Psalm 14:1
We’re not even for sure how many dimensions there are, much less what’s in them or how to get to them. Till we have the power to explore everything there is, there’s no way to disprove God.
There’s something very deranged about not even hoping for a life beyond this one, about loving the idea that death means annihilation. Atheists claim that belief in a future state necessarily denigrates this life. Not so. They look forward to tomorrow; I look forward to infinite tomorrows. Great happiness implies the desire always to enjoy it.
Nietzsche said, “G-d is dead.”
G-d said, “Nietzsche is dead.”
End of story...
It amazes me how people can believe in a real live living spirit being they call “God” who is supposed to be all-caring and all-loving.
If such a being does exist, then how do these people explain massive suffering and death around this planet? Wouldn’t such an all-caring, all-loving, all-powerful “God” step in and prevent it?
The existence of massive suffering and death is all the proof any rational person needs that said alleged all-caring, all-loving, all-powerful “God” does NOT exist.
The more likely manifestation of “God” is higher principles. A set of higher principles.
That set of higher principles can exist in a world full of suffering and death. They are simply being ignored.
Love is one of those principles. Perhaps the highest one. Love for fellow man. Love for the planet we live on, the air we breathe, the water we drink, etc. “Caring” is a better word. Caring for fellow man. Caring for the planet we live on, the air we breathe, the water we drink, etc. That principle is being ignored.
How many people who claim to believe in “God” and in some cases “love God”, turn right around and routinely ignore the principle mentioned above?
Which would produce better results? Believing in “God” and even “loving God”, or following the principle mentioned above?
Some of the lousiest people I’ve ever met, the most dishonest people I’ve ever met, the lyingest people I’ve ever met, the most irrational and unstable people I’ve ever met, believe in “God” and claim to “love God.”
“God” is nothing more than a convenient excuse to be a lousy person. People who believe in “God” typically believe said “God” is going to give them a free pass into some “next life”, so they don’t have to put forth any effort to follow the higher principles I mentioned, and be good people in this life.
Now thats something to think about. What all is there he's done that we can even fathom.
I’ve met Him. He’s real.
I am immediately reminded of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger's Pro Eligendo homily at the pre-conclave mass.
How many winds of doctrine have we known in recent decades, how many ideological currents, how many ways of thinking. The small boat of the thought of many Christians has often been tossed about by these waves - flung from one extreme to another: from Marxism to liberalism, even to libertinism; from collectivism to radical individualism; from atheism to a vague religious mysticism; from agnosticism to syncretism and so forth. Every day new sects spring up, and what St Paul says about human deception and the trickery that strives to entice people into error (cf. Eph 4: 14) comes true.Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be "tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine", seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times. We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires.
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Marechal is right .. we must be strong in our faith and be ready to defend it at all costs. There was another thread posted yesterday that corroborates this pattern.
Christians are becoming social pariahs in Britain
Tomorrow there will be a shift in power in our country. Now is the time for prayer for the new president and our nation. May God help us!
> God is imaginary.
And so is electric power.
AC power will not work without imaginary numbers.
You didn’t read this, did you? I only got through about half of them, and I recall seeing mentions of Hitler and Islam.
That's because those people are "quaint" and need protection from (and therefore justify the existence of) atheists.
Ironically, the same century that gave us the "age of reason" also gave us the "noble savage." The "rationalists" (including the ones that infest Free Republic) are very particular about just which religion(s) they defame and which they wave like a flag in the name of pluralism, diversity, and secularism. It's strange, but one of the implicit arguments of the atheists is that had they and not chr*stians been in charge for the better part of two millenia, they would have been very careful to leave the religious beliefs of the "noble savages" unmolested (a favor they never show Biblical creationists).
You remember the old days of pro wrestling? Remember how each of the "bad guys" claimed to be the best and come from the best place, yet they never feuded with each other but only feuded with babyfaces? This is a lot like that, don't you think?