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Posted by RicodJour on December 14, 2007, 5:56 pm
> What are they selling?
>
> Eternal *life*.
>
> That is, immortal life after a mortal death.
> You have to die first, and that scares the shit out of lots of folks.
> So the religious leaders have to persuade them by dangling a huge, tasty
> carrot just on the otherside of, well, the otherside.
> You know, pearly gates, sitting at the hand of god, no more pain, everyone
> is equal and without hate and all that nasty stuff.
>
> Have any of these charlatans offered up any proof of that which they are
> selling?
> Direct proof, someone that has actually sat at gods right hand and walked
> through those pearly gates.
>
> Say what?
>
> You mean to tell me not one single person has ever seen or done these
> things?
>
> -----------
>
> Long ago a preacher, no not THAT one -another one, taught me the basics of
> how to play guitar.
> I learned alot from that guy about a lot of things.
> But I couldn't learn his idea of life after death, it never clicked for me.
>
> One time I pushed him hard on a topic and he finally revealed something to
> me.
> He told me, while holding a bible,'If this book is wrong then everything I
> stand for, everything I have devoted my life to, will have been for
> nothing'.
> I asked, 'Isn't that a tremendous sacrifice considering there is no
> guaranteed outcome?'
> He said, 'No, not really, I would have led my life the way I had whether the
> bible is right or wrong anyway, so I have nothing to lose'.
> 'You on the otherhand have everything to lose by not believing in god, for
> if the bible IS correct then you will be forever lost'.
>
> I pondered that for a brief moment in my 13 year old life and then I told
> him, 'But I just don't believe it, can I be faulted for that?'
>
> As we looked at each other the look in each of our eyes at that moment in
> time was exactly the same but for different reasons.
>
> He couldn't understand why I couldn't believe in his god and I couldn't
> understand how he could.
You have no first hand knowledge of black holes or Japanese
architecture, yet you believe they exist. It's like that.
Either you believe, don't believe or believe that you haven't enough
information to formulate a belief. I'm in the last camp and the other
campers are welcome to the bunk beds of their choosing.
R
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