Q on Religion
From: Lin Yon Q (deja-q@access.digex.com)
Subject: Re: SATAN IS A CHRISTIAN GOD!
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Date: 1992-03-10 18:14:12 PST
In article <1992Mar9.231453.14702@sbcs.sunysb.edu> alushiku@engws4.ic.sunysb.edu (Lushiku) writes:
>In article <1992Mar8.225734.17037@rice.edu> davies@owlnet.rice.edu (Stephen Clark Davies) writes:
>>
>> That is exactly why these sorts of belief systems are so popular:
>>they feed the ego in a way that the natural self craves. Christianity doesn't
>>offer anything like that on the surface, and this is exactly why it is treated
>>with so much *scorn* by non-believers! The first thing Christianity teaches
>>you is this: *you* are only a creation by God, Who is infintely more loving,
>>powerful, and knowledgeable than you. You will never, never approach the
>>mighty character of His Being, placing you immediately on the "wrong" end of
>>a superiority-inferiority relationship. Not very attractive, huh?
>>
>> Furthermore, you were made *only* for the express purpose of giving
>>all aspects of your life over to him and utterly worshipping Him. And what's
>
>Doesn't that last sentence lead you to wonder just WHO really has the
>hungry ego?
At least someone understands what the bible REALLY means. It's a mythological
story book about the glorification of a deity that proclaims loudly that
you shall take no other gods, gets so pissed off at his very own creation
that he trashes the entire world, promises he'll never do it again but
changes his mind in time for a sequel, pre-programs people with lusts, then
wipes out cities because of his mistake, kills fig trees when they don't
bear fruit (no matter that it's off season) when he MADE them that way, and
got caught up in one of the biggest propaganda and PR campaigns in recorded
history. A 2000 year joke that plays to full houses.
What's the difference WHAT you call an entity that REQUIRES this type of
devotion? What does it matter if you call it satan or jesus? The only
difference is that one is classified as "good" and the other is classified
as "evil". And who made up these classifications? Why the victors of
course! And we all know how accurate THEIR accounts are.
Sorry, Charlie. I reject this garbage. And I see no difference in worshipping
self as in worshipping a mythical entity. Trying to tell us we are "wrong"
for not turning ourselves over to somebody's bad peyote crazed idea is
laughable.
Q