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We’ll never agree
Jun 10th
I wish people wouldn’t feel the need to beat you over the head with their opinion:
ME: Hot atheists and agnostics http://bit.ly/b37g57 Aren’t Agnostics just Atheists with a fear of commitment?
(Meant to be humorous)
Other Person: agnostics = there is a god! Athiests = there is no such thing as this god nonsense
To which I stupidly reply:
ME: Agnostics are just-in-case Atheists. You can’t have God without religion. Like believing in Huck Finn without Mark Twain.
Which in turn opens the angry floodgates:
OP: uhhhh… I’m agnostic. Yes, you can have spirituality without religion. You can’t be Christian without Christianity though.
OP: it’s more about abandoning religion than anything. Don’t tell me what I am.
OP: people don’t understand that spirituality and religion are two totally different things.
Oh, I had a reply but I refrained from comment there. I mean it’s twitter! Land of the quick comments not long discussions.
OP: that is like saying people of earthly (pagan) religions are athiests because they don’t believe in the Christian God.
My eyes are glazing over here…
OP: or that I am an athiest because I believe in and thank the universe for what I am blessed with. I am not Christian…
Fine, whatever you say dear. Go eat a cookie and calm down.
ag·nos·tic: (wishy-washy)
- One who believes that it is impossible to know whether there is a God.
- One who is skeptical about the existence of God but does not profess true atheism.
- One who is doubtful or noncommittal about something.
a·the·ist: (definitive)
- One who disbelieves or denies the existence of God or gods.
Somehow I think believing in a Mother Nature type energy (pagans?) or Lady Luck or any sort of mystical energy is different than believing in God or Muhammad or Buddha. There is no big giant head controlling the entire universe.
I believe in my parking angel. I have an angel on my visor that if I rub her tummy and ask nicely a great parking space will open up as if by magic. It works nine times out of ten. Do I think she’s getting her power though God? Shit no. But maybe she’s tapping into some karma-luck energy field. Or maybe it’s just coincidence. Who cares.
Oh right, the subject of this post. I learned a long time ago there’s just no arguing with people. You state your opinion and leave it at that. What’s the point of defending your position over and over again? You’re not going to change someone else’s mind.
Drives me nucking futs when people do that. But not as much as when they can’t spell Athiest.
Free Pass?
Jan 10th
Not that I give a shit how many women Tiger Woods has fucked, other than it’s a shitty way to treat one’s wife. What maybe interests me more is this statement by Brit Hume:
So if you’re a Christian and you ask for forgiveness, you’re off the hook for fucking 17-odd women outside of your marriage? Somehow I don’t think his golf-club wielding wife would agree.
Fucking Christians got some balls, y’all. That’s what I always thought was fucked up about Catholics. You could pretty much do anything you wanted during the week as long as you went in and told it all to some guy in a box, said a few words by rote and went on your merry way. Confess and be absolved.
Then there’s the Purity Balls. Daddy takes little girl out to the fancy ball where she takes a virginity pledge. Creeeeepy. How controlling is that? And where are the Purity Balls for the boys? Oh hell no, they get to go out and screw around all they want with “bad girls” then confess their sins and be forgiven. Then marry virgins who don’t know how to please/be pleased so they have bullshit excuses to go outside their marriage to find sensual women. And sometimes other men, cuz God knows you can’t be gay either.
EVERY SINGLE DAY something comes across my screen that just proves to me that Christianity is fucked up. Hypocrites, egomaniacs, cheaters, or just plain brainwashed idiots. Sheeple led by charismatic shepherds.
I mostly feel sorry for them. Dupes.
