The Concept Of Being "God Fearing"

[trish]

Are you sure you're forgiven? I know it's written down in a book somewhere that Jesus died for your sins. But then the bastard got himself resurrected. Seems to me that undoes the dyin' for yer sins part. In any case, God Remembers Everything...after all, he's (oops, He's) all-knowing. And He's known to be a real prick. I wouldn't trust Him. He ordered His own son to die for your sins, and what are they worth?

[buttslinger]

Your sin is PRIDE,Trish, that's a tough nut to crack.
It's not like I'm Kyle Reese trying to tell you that the Terminator is real and came back from the future, there are actually one or two fairly rational books that discuss God, as well as a few widely respected artists. I give you my solemn promise that you are stubborn and pigheaded on this issue.
Exhibit A? YOU!!!!
ha ha ha!!!

[trish]

Sorry, but I have very little pride. Some ambition perhaps, and a great deal of curiosity accompanied by a desire learn and understand; but I'm certainly not prideful. My sin is selfishness, pure and simple. I could definitely do more to be conscious of others around me, take on more responsibility and be more available to people, but I'm too absorbed in the things the really interest me - my partner, my immediate friends, my work and pornography. Life may eventually catch up with me and make me regret my ways, but I'm beyond the reach of the fictional fingers divine ghosts.

If I were you, I would've tried dropping that hard-drive into a black hole. Might've work, but Stephen Hawking says, "No, the universe remembers its entire content."

[buttslinger]

.... my partner, my immediate friends, my work and pornography.."

I'd say we're about 25% in agreement. As for that dark hard drive, I think there are quite a few people here who wouldn't want their nephew to hop on their computer and check their browsing history. People are the only animals that don't walk around naked.

[trish]

Amen to that.

[fred41]

Besides, God fucking well knows what was on that hard drive and you're still going to have to answer for it when you get to those golden arches...er...I mean St. Peter's gate.

Thanks Trish...This reminds me of all those idiots who use the rationale of "saying" they believe as an insurance policy for a 'possible' after life. "Better safe than sorry" they say...as if an actual all-knowing, supreme deity would be akin to the Burl Ives snowman in "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" - chuckling and singing away, and excusing you for any sins you may have committed, because on any given day , during a conversation you may have had on a city bus, you said - "I believe in God".
Like a being like that couldn't/wouldn't look into your heart/mind to see what was really going on there...and possibly toss that person further down than he would an honest unbeliever.

[Laphroaig]

[Stavros]

"You don’t need to go to church to be a Christian. If you go to Taco Bell, that doesn’t make you a taco."
-Justin Bieber.
Be afraid, be very afraid.

[buttslinger]

I can understand why eighteen year old Catholics want to go out and break every rule that's been shoved down their throat,
and I can understand why nobody here wants to give a thumbs up to an egomaniac asshole who has insulted shemales, gays, blacks, whites, brits, knowitalls, Koreans, Stevegrooby, etc etc etc.


Hey maybe I'm struggling with my internal buttslinger here.

If you go to the doctor's office and while you're sitting there for twenty, thirty, fifty minutes, maybe you've noticed those receptionists huddled behind the counter filing their nails, staring into space or avoiding eye contact, gossiping, talking on the phone. While you're hurting. What is your perception?
Are they minimum wage losers, or are they pissed at their boss, do they not care, or do they have problems of their own?
Do you pass Judgement on them because they never really stepped up front and center and took the pain to become a nurse instead of a lazy receptionist? Do you forgive them, because they know not what they are doing?

I would say humans caring about the patients sitting in their waiting room would be the very basic entry level Bible Lesson, and GOD would be more along the lines of twelve years of medical school. While I don't understand much of what my Doctor might say, I don't think he's full of shit. I have some faith he knows what he's talking about.

[trish]

I trust my doctor no further than he is able to explain his treatment and procedures. I trust the pharmaceuticals I buy only insofar as I trust the FDA to test them (which is getting more difficult for them to do in the present political climate). I have no faith