So, I recently realized I no longer believed in God, and now I identify as an agnostic atheist. I stopped believing in heaven a long time ago, so exiting out of my religion wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be. If you don’t want to read this, just scroll along, it’s…
I’m not American, but I hope your country realises that they should cherish love, rather than stopping it just because a phallus or finger goes where they wouldn’t personally choose it to go.
"It’s a creator deity, who created the universe to have a relationship with one species of primate… lucky us…and he’s got galaxy upon galaxy to attend to, but he’s especially concerned with what we do, and he’s especially concerned with what we do while naked."
"He’s created this cosmos as a vast laboratory in which to test our powers of credulity, and the test is this: can you believe in this god, on bad evidence? which is to say - on faith… and if you can, you will win an eternity of happiness after you die"
Now correct me if I’m wrong but it seems you only read the title:
“Strike? That doesn’t even make sense. “
Yes it does make sense. It’s mainly aimed at those who spread the word of God without being asked to, but most Christians are typically supposed to put work into being a ‘good’ Christian. Hence the term ‘strike’.
“You need a better understanding of this religion. None of what you said was logical.”
My name is not John W. Loftus, I also sourced where I got this from and at the top of this blog you will find a link to my personal blog. I am also not a man.
Otherwise, his points are definitely logical. If nobody told you about Jesus or Christianity would you be a Christian? If there was absolutely no mention of it anywhere?
Workers go on strike when they are overworked and underpaid. So I got to thinking what would happen if Christian believers from around the world went on strike. This strike would be against having to do all of the evangelistic and apologetic work themselves. What if they stopped praying for others to be saved? What if they stopped telling others about Jesus? What if Christians stopped evangelizing and arguing on behalf of Christianity? What if all evangelists, missionaries, and apologists went on strike?
I’m serious! What would happen? Think about this. I know Christians think they have a commission mandate to do evangelistic work, so it’ll never happen. Consider it a thought experiment instead. Can God do this work himself? If he can, then why does he need for anyone to do this work at all? If he cares, really cares for people, then he should do something himself. Would God step in and show he cares? Would he do what is right because it is the right thing to do regardless of whether Christians helped him? Would Christianity survive and even thrive into the future? Or, would Christianity die out as God lets the world and its people go to hell? If God sits back and does nothing while the world goes to hell then he cannot be a good God, or perhaps he’s just too lazy. ;-) Read to the bottom where I make a reasonable prediction that could very well upset your apologetic cart for good.
If Christians went on strike there should be no cause for concern. If God is really inside the Christian faith then it cannot fail. The theme of the book of Revelation is about God’s victory in the end. So the faith response is to relax since this is assured. “Be still and know that I am God,” believers are told. Actually, the Hebrew is better translated, “Cease, and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10). Even if believers didn’t do anything the victory is assured. So don’t be frustrated. Don’t lose any sleep over it either. God is winning and will win in the end. After all, Jesus reportedly said, “My yoke is easy and my burden is light” (Matt. 11:30). Imagine that, me, offering devotional advice!
It seems to me believers feel they must comment in order to keep others from being persuaded by what I write. “Oh” they say to themselves, “I must say something lest others be led astray.” That’s because they don’t believe God can keep people away from my arguments. They don’t believe God can give believers an extra jolt of the God juice, or that he is able to answer a prayer in a spectacular way in order to mitigate my arguments, or that God can speak to believers in dreams, or audibly, or visibly appear to them at night, if needed. They simply do not believe God could blind people from sites like mine. They don’t believe God could change the search engine hits so that susceptible believers would not find skeptical sites like mine. They do not believe God could keep any thought of reading something by a skeptic out of the minds of susceptible believers. They do not believe God can take away enough critical thinking skills that even if susceptible believers did find skeptical sites like mine they would not be led astray.
Believers act and talk as if God isn’t helping them at all, as if God doesn’t care to do anything if they don’t do it themselves. They really do not believe the Parable of the Lost Sheep applies to God, that he will do everything he can to shepherd his sheep. Christians claim to “pray as if it’s all up to God, but act as if it’s all up to us.” Yet, that’s not what I see. Many Christians simply do not believe God does anything to help at all. No, I cannot convince them of this, I know. But having been on the other side and seeing what I have seen for six years of Blogging, this is my informed opinion. It’s what I see on a daily basis. Christians act and talk as if God doesn’t do anything at all to help them. Not only this but they do not think prayers to God will work either.
Christians really do not believe. That’s my conclusion. They can’t. The way they comment here to defend their God against every argument I make proves it. It proves to me they don’t believe God can defend himself. They don’t believe their God will take the necessary steps to defeat arguments against his existence and his plan of salvation. It proves to me that God needs human beings to do this work because he doesn’t exist at all.
If Christians all went on strike then Christianity would go out of existence. That’s MY prediction. You know it. I know it. Everyone who is not a Christian knows it. The Christian faith needs, depends on, is necessitated by people of faith who proselytize it. This is true of every religion. Without people of faith any given faith would die out because there is no deity behind any of them. That’s what Christians think of other faiths than their own. That’s what seems equally reasonable to conclude about the Christian faith as well.
What’s your prediction? If you think the Christian faith would die out then your God isn’t helping you at all in your present attempts to convert people and keep others in the fold. If you think the Christian faith would die out then you don’t believe the book of Revelation. If you think the Christian faith would die out then your God does not care at all. If you think the Christian faith would die out then your God is not a good God. Yet, it seems utterly reasonable that it would die out, doesn’t it?
Anonymous asked: devoting time to a whole blog about why you don't believe in something is really quite sad. just get on with your life, dwell on what you do believe in, e.g. life or whatever. yolo ( i usually hate using that but it totally applies here) make a blog about what you enjoy doing or seeing or making. don't spend endless hours bagging out christianity just because you don't agree with it. btw god didn't persecute the jews, or cause poverty or any of that in your post. That's mankind's/our mistake.
It’s not all about what I don’t believe in, it’s about what I do as well. I have a personal blog dedicated to what I love. Although it may seem as though I spend all my time on the internet, a lot of the posts are queued.
I spent my weekend watching my boyfriend DJ live and hanging out with some producers. I also went to his grandparents house. I think my life is a nice mix of living and being on the computer. If I didn’t like doing this I wouldn’t. Just because you wouldn’t, and you don’t understand why I am, doesn’t mean I have no reason to.
Well, I’m pretty sure I was either reblogging or quoting from the bible in whichever post you are mentioning. How about you tell me exactly what you think he did and didn’t do, with proof.
I’m not a Christian because I don’t want to have to pay money to the church. In less than 10 years, when I have a bit more income than I do now, I’m going to actively give money to help build centres for education or any other welfare.
Churches are not needed, even if you are a Christian.
