Monday, June 12, 2006
Want to know why some people don't follow Christ? Maybe because HE'S SHOOTING AT THEM!!
Apparently, the report I cited about the Left Behind video game was innaccurate and I hadn't posted it for a half-hour before some Christian dude found it and called me on it. You can read it yourselves in the comments for the June 1 post. Sorry, Christian Cadre. I didn't know you were 
watching my every move. Overly religious types give me the heebie-jeebies. And this thing I posted in a negative light about Christianity on my little blog (which I keep thinking no one reads) got a response from a stranger within a half-hour...Yikes!
Anyone who knows me knows that I am not smart and nothing I say is reliable. But c'mon! There's a cadre? Watching little old me? To see if I say something bad about Jesus? Seriously. Come back to Earth. I like Jesus. He fed the hungry, he cured the ill and he treated whores and tax collectors with dignity at a time when most people didn't. But ever since I was a child I've struggled. God gave me a brain and that brain tells me that there is no clear evidence of "His" existence. When I was about 10 I told my mother this and she brought me into to the kitchen - the kitchen was where we got lectured. And she angrily stated to me, "This is what we believe! This is our faith! Jesus died for our sins. He died for you!" That's all I remember her saying, but lecture lasted like an hour. Powerful argument.
Okay, so Jesus was this guy who lived 2006 years ago and was executed because I masturbate smoke pot, and troll for porn on the Internet (sometimes all at once!). And therefore I should act on his every word (which has been changed, retranslated and reinterpreted countless times) and actively try to convert people to follow him - which doing so in itself is sort of vague...Aw hell! Just give $ to the Church.
Probably my least favorite idea in life is the notion that one life is better than another. "I worship God and you worship Vishnu, so you're going to hell" or "I have college degree and you dropped out of high school so I'm smarter" or "I'm rich and you're poor so I'm better" or "You watch TV and I read books, so I win." To me, it's predjudice. Any way you look at it. It's not what Jesus taught.
My recent contempt for religion has a lot to do with this. I couldn't trust anyone LESS than someone who claims holier-than-thou status and uses it as a reason to condemn works of art, science, people who worship differently, and people with differing sexual orientation. To me, much of what is passed off as spiritual nature seems more like a mental illness. People become so
obsessed with the idea of a God watching over us that they become ultra-sensitive to things that might be offensive to "Him." And some of these people are just itching to be offended! So books and music - even science - anything we could actually learn from that doesn't have to do with Christ is seen as being Satanic. They use standards for living in an afterlife as an excuse for what is often cruel behavior HERE, today, on EARTH.
That's part of what scares me about this fricking Left Behind game and the people who are defending it. Through this game, that cruel behavior is made possible and necessary for a war that exists only in the minds of eccentric Christians. And it shows their willingness to carry out the most insidious acts against innocent people in the name of God. Just like terrorists!
Another thing about this Left Behind game and the books that STINKS - and is NOT innaccurate - is that it takes place in New York City. NYC is the one place on earth you can find someone of any religion that's not Christianity. Also, in these stories, the anti-Christ is Chief of the United Nations. The U.N. is an institution that was developed for the sole purpose of peace, regardless of religion. The fact that this game and those books paint the idea of peace through foreign diplomacy as "Anti-Christian" is a concept I find subversive and abhorrent. It's my opinion that any true Christian should be ashamed of themselves for supporting or defending this game.
But my opinion doesn't matter, does it? Because I'm going to HELL!!!
Hey,
Just to set you at ease, I had not seen your blog before the erroneous description of the video game and would not have visited again except that you mentioned us. I used a Technorati search to try and get the word out about the misstatements being made about Left Behind. It wasn't personal!
Cool, thanks Layman. You want a Slayer ticket? Friday at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ. We have an extra ticket.
Thanks, but that would be quite a trek from Los Angeles. Maybe when you're in town we can go to a Petra concernt.
:)
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watching my every move. Overly religious types give me the heebie-jeebies. And this thing I posted in a negative light about Christianity on my little blog (which I keep thinking no one reads) got a response from a stranger within a half-hour...Yikes!Anyone who knows me knows that I am not smart and nothing I say is reliable. But c'mon! There's a cadre? Watching little old me? To see if I say something bad about Jesus? Seriously. Come back to Earth. I like Jesus. He fed the hungry, he cured the ill and he treated whores and tax collectors with dignity at a time when most people didn't. But ever since I was a child I've struggled. God gave me a brain and that brain tells me that there is no clear evidence of "His" existence. When I was about 10 I told my mother this and she brought me into to the kitchen - the kitchen was where we got lectured. And she angrily stated to me, "This is what we believe! This is our faith! Jesus died for our sins. He died for you!" That's all I remember her saying, but lecture lasted like an hour. Powerful argument.
Okay, so Jesus was this guy who lived 2006 years ago and was executed because I masturbate smoke pot, and troll for porn on the Internet (sometimes all at once!). And therefore I should act on his every word (which has been changed, retranslated and reinterpreted countless times) and actively try to convert people to follow him - which doing so in itself is sort of vague...Aw hell! Just give $ to the Church.
Probably my least favorite idea in life is the notion that one life is better than another. "I worship God and you worship Vishnu, so you're going to hell" or "I have college degree and you dropped out of high school so I'm smarter" or "I'm rich and you're poor so I'm better" or "You watch TV and I read books, so I win." To me, it's predjudice. Any way you look at it. It's not what Jesus taught.
My recent contempt for religion has a lot to do with this. I couldn't trust anyone LESS than someone who claims holier-than-thou status and uses it as a reason to condemn works of art, science, people who worship differently, and people with differing sexual orientation. To me, much of what is passed off as spiritual nature seems more like a mental illness. People become so
obsessed with the idea of a God watching over us that they become ultra-sensitive to things that might be offensive to "Him." And some of these people are just itching to be offended! So books and music - even science - anything we could actually learn from that doesn't have to do with Christ is seen as being Satanic. They use standards for living in an afterlife as an excuse for what is often cruel behavior HERE, today, on EARTH.That's part of what scares me about this fricking Left Behind game and the people who are defending it. Through this game, that cruel behavior is made possible and necessary for a war that exists only in the minds of eccentric Christians. And it shows their willingness to carry out the most insidious acts against innocent people in the name of God. Just like terrorists!
Another thing about this Left Behind game and the books that STINKS - and is NOT innaccurate - is that it takes place in New York City. NYC is the one place on earth you can find someone of any religion that's not Christianity. Also, in these stories, the anti-Christ is Chief of the United Nations. The U.N. is an institution that was developed for the sole purpose of peace, regardless of religion. The fact that this game and those books paint the idea of peace through foreign diplomacy as "Anti-Christian" is a concept I find subversive and abhorrent. It's my opinion that any true Christian should be ashamed of themselves for supporting or defending this game.
But my opinion doesn't matter, does it? Because I'm going to HELL!!!
Hey,
Just to set you at ease, I had not seen your blog before the erroneous description of the video game and would not have visited again except that you mentioned us. I used a Technorati search to try and get the word out about the misstatements being made about Left Behind. It wasn't personal!
Cool, thanks Layman. You want a Slayer ticket? Friday at Continental Airlines Arena, East Rutherford, NJ. We have an extra ticket.
Thanks, but that would be quite a trek from Los Angeles. Maybe when you're in town we can go to a Petra concernt.
:)
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