I have always deemed people who go to church on sunday in fresh costumes have been up all night long drinking their faces off and have done something or said something that has caused a sin burn in their being. They have to ask god at the pulpit of bs to forgive them. . Waiting until after church in the privacy of their own homes to crack the beer that stops the shakes. It is hard to believe people can really believe the disney episodes that the bible and its long winded scribes have scribbled.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.I definitely think that people who don't believe they have a ready route to forgiveness take more personal (adult) responsibility for their actions.
CallMeDave
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Apr 28, 2018
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We aren’t all like this. ?
Christiep77
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Apr 25, 2018
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Like what?
Drinking all night Sat and asking forgivness Sunday
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Believing in "the disney episodes that the bible and its long winded scribes have scribbled"?
@Davesnothere thinking it’s ok to do whatever you want and then wear the right costume on Sunday morning in a righteous attempt to portray some sort of higher moral standard. I don’t think I’m better than anyone else and I have certainly spent a good number of Sundays sitting in church and asking forgiveness for my bad choices the prior week. But never under the pretense that I get to do whatever I want because I going to be in church Sunday morning.
@Christiep77 And I have known few Christians who thought they did
but many who felt that despite their best effort, they fell short
Because the standard is perfection
Which is not possible under the human condition
So its a loop, a set up to fail, because no one can ever be perfect
and all of us want to be better
So you did answer my inquiry as to what not all of you are like
That being openly, intentionally hypocritical
Am I to take it then you do believe in "the disney episodes that the bible and its long winded scribes have scribbled"?
@Christiep77 Also it is a Dogmatic reality
Not understanding WHY Jeffery Dhammer, kidnapped, zombified into sex slaves, killed and ate 17 people does not make it ok that he did that does it?
To me something was quite broken in that human, right?
Yet Jeffery was a Born Again Christian before he died, forgiven and washed clean in the blood of the lamb. However the 17 victims never got that chance for redemption from the very same God, cause ole Jeff ate them.
Which would make them getting kidnapped, zombified into sex slaves, killed and eaten, all part of God's plan too, so he could save Jeff.
We can EASILY see that as WRONG, morally wrong, ethically wrong, but if you try and say "it's God's Mercy" they you are disavowing the lack of Mercy for the victims, who went through hell form ole Jeff and then get to go to hell itself.
Which would make that God evil.
Were you a believer in the past? It doesn't sound like it because you are certainly assuming a great deal about believers as a monolith.
Yes there are plenty of hypocrites (there are a thousand ways to be one, even without Demon Rum). Yes most of them don't live their daily lives like they make pretense of on Sunday moanin'. But there ARE in fact people with good integrity and good intentions who go to church to feel closer to their deity of choice.
Also there are a shit-ton of reasons to go for church other than to ask for or receive forgiveness or express repentance. I doubt that reason even occurs to most Protestants as that's a "done once and finished" sort of notion to them. They go to socialize, or to hear nice music, or to feel part of something larger than themselves, etc.
mordant
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Apr 25, 2018
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Often here church is a great way to slowly introduce yourself to new people. And its a way of making a deal too. Ohcome on over later . You can have the tickets to Billy Graham . Discuss with him about Jesus. Argue more likely. Or since this is not my territory get out while I can.
I'm sure there are plenty of hypocrites (Catholics, mostly) who do exactly as you say; sin like crazy during the week and confess in order to receive forgiveness on Sunday. But there are a lot of "true believers" who faithfully attend church (often far beyond only on Sundays), and honestly try to live their lives "for Christ" or whoever. So not everyone is purely motivated to attend church out of guilt, but guilt and fear are surely prime tools of religion to keep their masses in-line, and subjugated.
IAMGROOT
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Apr 25, 2018
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There are so many who bond on this chapel of goodliness to others. And it seems to raise their authority on all subjects. As they will talk out of the truth. A comic book for the children at sunday school. Mouldy bibles for the masses of attendees. I have thought jokingly what if religion is a parasite that is sold with every bible? It crawls into your ear and eats your brain and tells you to prey to god or else.
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