Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Conversion is silly
If the number of Bibles in the world made it right, then the fact that only 33% of the world was Christian means it isn't that good of a book. I am sure it gave some comfort, but another reading will be wasted on most.
Read Matthew 11:20 and question why you should trust the word of someone that would destroy whole towns and then threaten worse hundreds of years later. There is no trust to be had when a god would repeatedly destroy, threaten, and punish its own creation multiple times to prove a point rather than admitting to mistakenly planting the wrong tree in the wrong garden, creating a conniving snake, a woman that is easily fooled and a man who loved her. God created man in his own image, flawed and at times very evil. The Devil is especially silly. If Satin tempts us, why isn't he locked up? If the evil is man's nature, why not change nature? This is not religion, truth or faith, just plain weird.
Be good, be kind and a productive member of society. Do it because it is good for us all and future generations, not because of a book.
You may have taken great offense to anything that questions your belief. It is true to you. The point is not to argue, but that the argument has no meaning to me or you. Creating converts is the worst part of humanity. I have spoken many times to friends who's family were killed over a difference in religion. They died because it is assumed to be the quickest method of religious conversion. An argument is just slower and crueler.
The only man who is converted is one who has nothing left to lose (or a skilled serpent is involved).
Let us not talk religion.
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