What a well reasoned and cogent argument.

Submitted by trans-parere (Canada), May 17, 2008 at 01:05

I'll bet you feel absolutely G.L.O.R.I.O.U.S. after that religious rant.
Which is it? Am I going to die or am I going to live forever? Lay your guilt trip and doctrine of fearing God on me. Do I really have to be just like you? Think just like you? Regurgitate someone else's words; someone else's mythology just like you, in the hopes of being accepted into the exclusive tribe of "Those Who Will Be Saved From Having Lived Life As A Human Being". [said in a deep voice as if coming from the heavens]

It is said that if you want to know about a people study the tools they use. Jews then Christians then Moslems: fear and guilt. Your God has no place for you on this earth. Like the Moslem you must wait for your death before your enjoyment begins. Christians, Jews and Moslems are always at war with each other because you are competitors for the affections of the same God. A God who has forsaken you in this life and has nothing to offer for existing as his creation but a future promise that if you live up to his expectation he wont harm you any more.

It's no wonder you people like to hurt each other. It's the only time you feel alive while waiting for your death. or that you all espouse evangelism and proselytisation. It goes hand in hand with your militant / crusading zeal to have everyone suffer along with you. Especially those innocents who are living happy and contented lives as human beings and would actually like to remain so with out being force fed a tribalist doctrine of "exception for being of our tribe".

Do you ever have a cogent thought all on your own or are you so conditioned that your religion will have to answer for you in all matters? Duh! What a dumb question eh! A mind of your own. What was I thinking? My apologies.

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