While it would be nice if there were more people who believed in science instead
of sky Gods, I am more of a live and let live type of person.
You know its wrong, yet you insist the bible is the word
of some sky god who is perfect in every way.
Shame we just can't round them up and just let them kill each other in the name
of their sky god.
Not exact matches
For example, the «Eye
of Horus» belongs to Horus, the
sky god, often depicted as a falcon.
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But just as Roman children grew up believing i n the far out exploits
of the Roman
gods and Greek children grew up believing in Greek
gods, children today grow up believing that a virgin was impregnated by a
god, that this
god died and was reborn, that this
god later flew up into the
sky and vanished, and on and on and on.
You assume a specific definition
of «
god» meaning a magic
sky - daddy.
see what religion does... all in the name
of some imaginary
sky - daddy, who is nothing but just one
of the thousands
of «
gods» invented by man over the course
of human history.
Q. 4 It is only acceptable as an adult to believe childish Bronze Age mythology like talking snakes, the Red Sea splitting, water turning into wine by magic, mana falling from the
sky, a man living in a whale's belly, a talking donkey, superhuman strength, a man rising from the dead and angels, ghosts,
gods and demons in the field
of:
The heavens declare the glory
of God, and the
sky proclaims the work
of His hands.
you believe in a narrow view
of a
god based on ancient fairy tales and that if you adhere to the teachings
of a supposed son
of god you will go to disneyland in the
sky forever... which is damm ridiculous... I consider myself an atheist but I am aware
of the possibility
of a creative force which created the universe... but that
god chatted with people 2000 years ago and brought out a book is childish and stoopid!
Or maybe he's just too humble that thousands
of people can't help taking his picture... only the
Sky Gods know for sure!
They want the entire country to be an echo chamber, spouting back their fairy in the
sky worship and never questioning the authority
of their
god.
«Let there be light, let there be atmosphere, let there be vegetation, Let there be lights to serve as signs (sun, moon etc), Let the water and
sky have living creatures, Let the land have living creatures
of which man was the last created then
God rested from creation.
Do you want to go back to the dark ages when humans believed that the earth was the center
of everything because the bible mentions that
god stopped the day by stopping the sun in the
sky?
And
God said, «Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse
of the
sky.»
Any
god who could influence a person's thoughts could even more easily light up the
sky with glowing letters
of holy text, yet there is nothing supernatural in origin influencing anything in this continuum.
The order
of creation reads better as spiritual poetry which rings true yet I assume your issue is related to current physical and cosmological order: Let there be light, let there be atmosphere, let there be vegetation, Let there be lights to serve as signs (sun, moon etc), Let the water and
sky have living creatures, Let the land have living creatures
of which man was the last created then
God rested from creation.
And those
gods were an astrological parody for worship
of THE SUN... You know that big bright hydrogen fusion machine in the
sky that the church once believed orbited the Earth... See the only way to truly be religious and in particular a Christian is to not ask questions.
Well that depends, if you believe that
god literally wrote the book and tossed it out
of the
sky then it obviously holds a lot
of value, so do you practice everything that it says to?
Let's face it, the belief that an infitely old, all - knowing
sky -
god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions
of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.
Billions
of dollars and hours wasted on imaginary
sky gods, when that time and effort and money could be directed at reality.
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.
Let me get this straight: You believe that a couple
of thousand years ago an invisible man in the
sky impregnated a virgin girl in the middle east, had a half -
god / half - man son who traveled around doing magic tricks, and then rose from the dead and is now constantly watching all
of us to see if we'll get pie in the
sky when we die?
we are not saying your
sky -
god is nasty, we are saying that the notion
of a loving
god doing so is internally self - contradictory and, thus, likely wrong.
Sorry,
sky wizard is apparently a more technically correct description
of the Christian
god mythical figure.
All the lifetime
of prayers and rituals and sacrifices are to convince
sky god that you're a good enough «yes» person to get your mansion in the
sky.
A devastating question if we think
of God as an old man in the
sky with a long white beard, and (if we think in those terms) we can go still further and ask «why not hide from the irascible old eccentric on the mountaintop when he threatens to burn you alive for all eternity if you don't believe in him?»
... I hope that in another thousand years, humanity looks back at us and cringes because we were still afraid
of the
sky -
gods.
Christians attempt to act out the wrath
of their imaginary
sky - tyrant, since, when being honest with themselves, they realise the
gods are powerless.
There is the simple recognition that Zeus, considered
god of the
sky and ruler
of the Olympian
gods in ancient Greece and corresponding to the Roman
god Jupiter, is a mythological
god, the same as Hermes.
It seems, then, that the «Male
Sky God» imagery
of the West has incorporated both negative and positive aspects.
And... despite the overwhelming evidence to the contrary, some obstinates continue to believe that their
Sky God wrote a series
of books.What would their religion be like if they didn't believe this?
When a President (Bush) utilizes his military to invade another country (Iraq) and cause the deaths
of tens
of thousands
of innocent civilians all because he believed his
god told him it was the right thing to do... yeah, I think we have a right to bash people who take direction from invisible
sky fairies.
Most
of the
gods are transparent to their natural origins: Agni from fire, Soma from the wine, Usas from the dawn, Dyaus and Varuna from the
sky, Surya and Savitri from the sun, the Asvins (twins) from the twilight, and so forth.
For example, a man named Job, who lived some 3,600 years ago and was «the greatest
of all the people
of the East», made a startling statement, saying that
God «stretches out the northern
sky over empty space, suspending the earth upon nothing.»
Dirt, if quoting from your bible and sincerely interpreting what it says is a crime in the eyes
of your nasty
sky fairy, and if your
god is as murderous and evil as your folklore shows him to be then I feel that I can fairly call your «
god» an ASS HOLE.
To obey Paul's command for your children means giving them more than a rational faith — it means also giving them a well - formed Christian imagination that can look at a starry night
sky and see more than the infinite reach
of empty space and the eternal stretch
of endless time, that can «keep seeking the things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand
of God» (3:1).
I'd point to a whole life
of unremarkable moments and the ancient streets in Rome and the night
sky and dead languages, to all
of the ways we defiantly choose life over death, the ways that our everyday lives testify to the victory
of God's dream for us.
The Aramaic roots
of the verb for «to see
God» evoke the image
of a flash
of lightning that appears suddenly across the
sky.
What you deny (that
God is some kind
of mystical
sky being), I would deny too.
This vision
of God's future is not about angels who have gone to heaven floating around in the
sky with their loved ones.
Notice the size
of this text: it moves from the revelation
of God in heavens,
sky and sun (vv.
For
god so loved the world that he said «I will destroy man whom I have created from the surface
of the ground; man, along with animals, creeping things, and birds
of the
sky; for I am sorry that I have made them.»
i supose my autism is
gods wraith for not accepting
of your magical
sky daddy.
While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation
of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the
sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement
of winds and clouds between
sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence
of God) for those who make use
of their brains» (Surah II, 164).
From all these discoveries, each
of which plunges him a little deeper into the ocean
of energy, the mystic derives an unalloyed delight, and his thirst for them is unquenchable; for he will never feel himself sufficiently dominated by the powers
of the earth and the
skies to be brought under
God's yoke as completely as he would wish.
I can gaze into the dizzying blue
of a clear
sky and believe in
God again, because at least for me, that
sky isn't filled with missiles or bombs.
For what do we long for when we read the Beatitudes, when we meditate on the words
of Christ through lectio divina, when we join with Christians past and present to pray the hours, when we climb Teresa
of Avila's «Interior Castle,» when we raise our hands in worship, when we eat the bread and drink the wine, when we walk the labyrinths, when like David we see that the night
sky declares the glory
of God, when we study the Bible in Hebrew and Greek, when we connect with a glorious line from Wendell Berry or Frederick Buechner, or Annie Dillard?
Dr. Streett argues that the concept
of the Kingdom
of God is not how it is taught or understood in most churches and Bible studies, namely, as equivalent to going to heaven when we die... as a pie in the
sky in the bye - and - bye.