The old myths
about sky gods are absurd and dangerous.
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Just like he references a conversation he had,
about God as follows: «When I talk
about God, I mean love and justice and reconciliation, not a man in the
sky.
Everytime religious people post something
about God or something out of their belief, there comes the Atheists storming it with their typical (hateful, profane, disrespectful but in - fairness articulate, itellect, scientific and logical) replies and name callings such as; «2000 years religious numbnuts», «oxymorons who keep asking of
sky daddy's help», «idiots who was fooled by a magical being in the
sky» and so on and so forth.
Even in process philosophy, however,
skies are not all blue when it comes to talking
about God.
It is not as though that means that some Iron Age
sky -
god dreamed up in a Palestinean slum
about 3,000 years ago exists.
This vision of
God's future is not
about angels who have gone to heaven floating around in the
sky with their loved ones.
The eternal peace of humanity with
God, received by faith on account of Christ's victory over sin, death, and the power of Satan, is dismissed as pie in the
sky to be exchanged for the various approximations of peace and happiness that in good times this world also knows
about and experiences.
Is that the One
about Whom the psalmist wrote: «The heavens declare the glory of
God; the
skies proclaim the work of His hands.»
If you want more precision, I believe the Sumerian's history
about «
Gods coming from the
sky».
When I was a new Christian and first heard
about the rapture, I asked
God if it will be «scary» being suddenly zapped up to meet Him in the
sky.
You likely deny evolution and global warming for no other reason than it makes you uncomfortable and hold science to the impossibly high standard of having to explain every conceivable mystery
about the natural World before you will accept it, but some moron at a pulpit doing magic hand signals of a Sundaymorning is enough to convince you he is communicating with some
sky -
god and turning grocery store bread and wine into flesh and blood.
If you take the time to look up into the
sky at night, or amaze at life itself, or think deeply
about black holes, or try to understand how complicated something as simple as a tree leaf is, and NOT think there is the possibility of there being angels, demons,
God, and Satan... well, then I say you are missing something big.
The professor once asked me: «When I talk
about God, I mean love and justice and reconciliation, not a man in the
sky.
We've all heard the ancient, nonsensical hypothesis
about the all knowing, all merciful, all loving
god, who seems to find joy in destroying cities, killing vast numbers of people by floods, fire from the
sky, plagues and pestilence.
Our problems don't go away unless we get help from other humans or take action for ourselves... there's no
God in the
sky that does a dam thing
about our prayers.
and consider the way the cosmos rotate
about our
sky; a day can mean a lot of things in the context of
God.
I wonder if we will ever get to the point as a nation where the vast majority of us DO NOT believe in Iron Age myths from the Middle East
about sky -
gods and evil ground spirits.
The statement was
about the blue
sky proving the existence of
god.
People that have an air of superiority
about them because they believe in some invisible
sky god fairy?
We don't want to take your beliefs away from you, quite the contrary, we don't really care if you believe in the mythical
sky god, what we care
about is when you want to force your beliefs on everyone else.
- This is obviously an oversimplification, but it may start children to thinking
about God as at work in the order of things and not as far off in the
sky somewhere.
When you folks can VERIFY that you're all talking to the same invisible
sky - wizard and can UTILIZE the special knowledge you have
about the universe, let us
god - deniers know, and until then, quit pretending to have the license to tell everyone else what to do because you're special; you can't and you're not.
Religion = Sentient power In the article's example «When I talk
about God, I mean love and justice and reconciliation, not a man in the
sky»; that person still views these things as a sentient force.
No, I am not falling into some mystical religious explanation where I believe that the Bible has eternally existed in heaven or in the mind of
God (though many Christians actually believe this), or that the Bible fell out of the
sky on stone tablets or golden plates (like some other religions believe
about their Scriptures).
Why do white people in 21st century America think a middle - eastern
sky god from 6,000 cares
about them?
It takes courage to say «I don't know» rather than «big mysterious
god in the
sky did it and so we'll stop thinking
about it».
You don't see anything deeply inane
about basing 21st Century health care policy on the perceived $ exual wishes of some hokey Bronze Age
sky -
god invented by ignorant Palestinian farmers 2,000 years ago?
True, we can learn a great deal
about the death of
God in the history of religions, if only because
gods have always been in the process of dying, from the time the
sky gods fell into animism to the disappearance of a personal or individual deity in the highest expression of mysticism.
They do not preach lies
about a nasty and violent
sky god condemning those who are not perfect to hell.
@ 12 Bob B «But there is even more
about the local LibDems» Do nt be a tease Bob, what could possibly be worse then cigarette running or invoking an imaginary
sky god?
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The story was
about how
God tried to stop people building a tower that was reaching up to the
sky by scattering people around the world and confounding them to speak different languages.
I certainly did not see
God as a person - like being, a «guy in the
sky,» but I didn't have any other way of thinking
about that concept.
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these guys very much omitted information that very much could have determined people's purchases and they've damaged the reputation they are going to have to do a lot to make up for this as even if they apologize tomorrow let's be honest the majority of the Gaming Community will not remember that in comparison to no man Skies launch, for
god sakes people were still asking what no man
sky was even with the team being extremely transparent
about the concept of the game so I do not believe the gaming community has a memory that good that they're seriously going to always remember them apologizing It's going to be a needle in a haystack of disappointment.
There will plenty of talk
about Uncharted 4, the new
God of War and of course, No Man's
Sky.
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Three millennia of complaining
about unruly
sky gods» > has left civilization with a plenum of climate cliches.