Striking a Nerve?
It seems that with this post I struck a nerve in at least one person. Now frankly, I am not into debating religion with anyone, because frankly it is pointless. Everyone believes as they see fit. However, I do find it hilarious when someone feels the need to “correct” me about something I say.
Frankly, I posted my perception of the way Christianity goes. I’ve noted this more than once, in more than one church. And I saw something in one of the comments on the aforementioned post that made me stop and think. This person was defending the Christian faiths. I have to say if you feel the need to defend your faith to me for what I posted about, which was my opinion, formed by my own observations, then perhaps you should take a longer look at what you believe. After all, when I found myself feeling the need to defend my faith and religion, I realized that what people were saying about it was becoming more and more of a reality.
For example, did you realize that you can be excommunicated from your church for varying reasons? It does vary by denomination with the LDS church seeming to be the most strict about it, but still. The CHURCH deems it all right to decide who is worthy to stand before God? I think not. That was supposed to have been for God and Christ to decide, not humans on earth.
And as far as being called back to the flock, flocks are comprised of sheep who follow blindly because they don’t know any better. I prefer not to be referred to in that manner, thank you. I am not a sheep, I am a human. I prefer to be referred to as such.
April 20th, 2008 at 5:12 am
I guess I’ve been a questioner (”troublemaker”) for most of my life. I see Deity pretty my everywhere I look, and that makes a lot of people uncomfortable. I even confuse the Unitarians, and that’s not an easy task. But I never understood why I shouldn’t find something valuable about every religion we humans have invented. After all, Deity doesn’t care how you believe. I don’t think Deity even cares IF you believe.
As I like to tell my more … mmmm, conservative … acquaintances, G-d gave me a brain, and I’m darn well going to use it!
April 20th, 2008 at 8:52 pm
First and foremost, I would like to express my respect for the moderator for posting my message. I suspect there are a lot of bloggers that wouldn’t allow such a contrary, if hilarious, post on their site.
It would appear that I also struck a nerve. Maybe that’s a good thing, since I enticed someone that is not into debating religion to defend their wiccan/pagan faith. Sometimes it’s worth defending things that are important to us.
The first thing I said was that I wasn’t here to argue, but to alleviate confusion. My intention was not to defend the Christian faith so much as to correct an obvious, if understandable, error in the interpretation of one of its concepts. How quickly would a wiccan correct someone that said that witches worship satan? Or how quickly would a wiccan correct someone that, even in metaphor, said that they were part of a flock?
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Unfortunately, I failed to get my point across to “yeah.” Then again, I never claimed to be a writer or poet. Let me try again.
God can love while taking away… Good parents often take things away from their children without losing love, or even because of love, for their children. And children learn to respect their parents’ knowledge and authority, even if they might sometimes be afraid of their parents’ power over them.
God does not put us into hell. We put ourselves into hell. Hell is a decision on our part that we don’t want God in our lives. God’s love is so unconditional that God will honor our desire. That is hell, total separation from God, and it happens to people that choose it.
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“After all, Deity doesn’t care how you believe. I don’t think Deity even cares IF you believe.”
If you think about this for a minute, you’ll probably come up with plenty of examples of people that you really wish believed a little more like you, or even I, believe. I suppose Osama Bin Laden comes to my mind, but I’ll let you choose your own.