A pastor told me today that he is sorry that I have not felt the love of god. Pastor, I am the one who is sorry.
I'm sorry you believe a god who does not seem interested in loving everyone.
I'm sorry you feel the need to apologize for this "all loving" creator.
I'm sorry your religion would have you believe people are incapable of loving each other without this watch-dog divinity.
I'm sorry your happiness in this life relies on hope of the next.
I'm sorry you can't see that we don't need a god to be good, or loved.
I'm sorry for all the wonder your faith would have you ignore in favor of fairy tales.
For all the confusion in doctrine.
For lies of zealouts.
For the guilt brought on by your own humanity.
For all the delusions your mind has been forced through fear to accept, you have my deepest sympathies.
Don't waste your time getting advice from a pastor. They are not free thinking. Their religious education clouds all other types of answers that might work than just those that religion approves. I would suggest a good friend or a counsler before a minister. Just my thoughts.
How can someone who claims to be a jealous and wrathful god be anything other than a stalking psychotic with a sick understanding of the word 'love'.
Thats a great question.
@AnTwanSr Thank you for the correction. I note that the "?" is missing along with the edit facility!
Don't hate on those that believe in God, all men have struggled with understanding life. Some are not capable of comprehending more than the simplistic God narrative. Also if someone is taught that from a early age they can get locked it.
I don't consider showing the same exact condescendence hatred.
@friendlycatlady or even half or one-third the condescension.
Awesome post! Thoughts and prayers to the pastor.
Three proofs that Jesus was Jewish
The One that says that Jesus was Irish has a different #1. The Irish version says the "He went out drinking with his friends the night before he died." Heard it long ago and it took a few hrs. to bring it back from my 65 yrs. old mind. Still works but a little shaky on the downloads.
@Nevermind345 Here's one version of that joke:
SIX PROOFS THAT JESUS WAS IRISH:
1.He never got married.
2.He never held a steady job.
3.He went out drinking with the lads the night before he
died.
4.His last request was a drink
5.He lived with his parents until he was 33.
6.He thought his mother was a virgin, and she, bless her,
thought he was God.
I'm sorry you spoke to a pastor. I stopped reading from that first sentence.
I got kicked out of a youth group because I was gay and believed in a woman's right to choose. I was like 15 or 16 and the leader told the entire group I was a homosexual, that he didn't approve of me, and I shouldn't be there. I'm sorry for them because if they cannot accept who I am and love everybody, it is their own fault!
That was so cruel...thankfully you do not belong with 'their kind,' but, how hurtful! I feel that hurt and I wasn't even there!! I can still be shocked at the total lack of respect for one human being toward another! I hope you got past that asap!
A friend of mine while hauving a day out in Glasgow ways told by some soul beggers that the reason she was disabled was because she did not believe in gawd. Therevwas no discusion with my friend beforehand to establish her beliefs first.
Anyone else know of or had similar experiences.
He is just sorry that you know more than he realizes. He will be out of support when the rest of his congregation wakes up to the fact. You should have told him to get a real job only to find out that he probably has no other skills other than his Sunday one. Never try and rationize or waste your efforts talking with these people.
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation (UU) I belonged to in Columbia, SC had a pastor who went to seminary as a Baptist and preached as a Baptist and left that denomination because he could no longer preach what he did not believe. One of the members there was a retired Methodist preacher and one where I live now was an ordained minister. As most of you may know UUs have no doctrine leaving it to an individual to believe what they want including nothing at all. I personally am atheist as are most of our members and many others are agnostic. We have close to 600 members. So NO and hell NO. This country does not belong to the Christians; it belongs to all of us!!!!
The bad thing is that he probably doesn’t know the history of his religion. It’s very sad when they have blind faith.
What great insight!! Thanks for your post.
I am sorry he never received a gift from Santa. Unfortunately Santa is,not real either.