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Party Conversation
Sis-in-Law: Do you think God is good?
Me: I don t know.
Evil?
I don t know.
You think God is evil? Or has evil in him?
I don t know what evil is.
C mon!
Define evil for me and then we ll talk.
(Silence.)
Later in the conversation:
Sis-in-Law: I can t reconcile why God lets innocent children die.
Me: I can.
?
Because He doesn t care whether you live or die.
You can t be serious.
As a heart attack.
If God is immortal then a life of one day or one of 100 years or a millenium is essentially the same time.
If life is nothing more than a transitional stage of a Soul that your Soul lives before and beyond your body why would a god mourn your death?
Do you mourn the passing of a caterpillar to a butterfly?
Sis: Yeh but
Later in the conversation:
Sis-in-Law: Do even you believe in God?
Me: Dunno.
What do you mean you don t know?
Dunno. Don t care to know. No matter what, it can t be proven either way. I m not willing to tear my heart out trying to figure it out anymore. Because it can t be figured out.
Do you really think that?
Yep. When I was born no one handed me a rule book that said, This is very important: Before you die, you have to pick a god to follow. If you choose unwisely, you risk the eternal damnation ( see: hell-fire, brimstone, ABBA music pp. 2045-2156 ) of the True God.
I ve opted out of the system.
The Wife-Beast: Um, Jim, we have to go home. Now.
Comments
Tangerine said:
So we have gone over this God thing before and I understand and tend to agree with your take completely.
We have this GUY here who packs his nondenominational church. If a blue moon hits, I visit him during one of his 2 Sunday standing-room only performances.
Understanding that I have a problem decifering religion from cult, this guy still gets to me.
He's that good.
Worse even he is on MP3 and internet live:
http://www.sscommunitychurch.com/media/sermons/index.html
Listen. If you can find the time.
Posted on Oct 18, 2005 12:51 AM
ruminator said:
I've had those conversations, I believe. :)
Posted on Oct 18, 2005 09:50 AM
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