If God is a fairytale...
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 3:44 pm
Even if God and the Bible, especially The New Testament is all just a fairytale, does it even matter?
If God is not physical, if God is just a made-up fairytale, does it even matter in the long run?
After all, God "the fairytale" did have a huge impact in people's lifes. Humans can endure a lot of suffering and obstacles by the mere faith in this fairytale, so obviously it does have some power, to some degree.
But I do not subscribe to the belief that any deity or faith is equally important. To me, it makes no sense to believe in a vengeful deity who demands needless sacrifices and religious wars. For such issues, we have Real Politics. Real Politics is all about waging wars and making peace, diplomatic deals and so forth.
God should be an embetterment of people's lives rather than a stupid culture. God should give you inspiration, make you stronger and make you become a better human.
I can't say I'm an atheist, even though I believe God to be a fairytale. At best I'm a Christian Atheist.
A Christian Atheist is someone who do not subscribe to the supernatural beliefs (ie. physical ressurrection of Jesus which btw. was added much later in the new testament and early christians/followers of Jesus' preaching disagreed even over this issue), but maintain the morals/ethics of Jesus' preaching.
Some people live their lives without God all perfectly well and they are good humans too.
Some religious people believe firmly in God, but are brutal terrorists.
Why can't we have some people who believe in a good God, and do good stuff, but not because their deity told them so, but because they believe in a good cause? I mean, welfare for the sick and disabled who cannot help themselves, and protecting innocent immigrants from the harm of the people and give them a chance?
Why is such a belief considered a henious crime in many western countries?
If God is not physical, if God is just a made-up fairytale, does it even matter in the long run?
After all, God "the fairytale" did have a huge impact in people's lifes. Humans can endure a lot of suffering and obstacles by the mere faith in this fairytale, so obviously it does have some power, to some degree.
But I do not subscribe to the belief that any deity or faith is equally important. To me, it makes no sense to believe in a vengeful deity who demands needless sacrifices and religious wars. For such issues, we have Real Politics. Real Politics is all about waging wars and making peace, diplomatic deals and so forth.
God should be an embetterment of people's lives rather than a stupid culture. God should give you inspiration, make you stronger and make you become a better human.
I can't say I'm an atheist, even though I believe God to be a fairytale. At best I'm a Christian Atheist.
A Christian Atheist is someone who do not subscribe to the supernatural beliefs (ie. physical ressurrection of Jesus which btw. was added much later in the new testament and early christians/followers of Jesus' preaching disagreed even over this issue), but maintain the morals/ethics of Jesus' preaching.
Some people live their lives without God all perfectly well and they are good humans too.
Some religious people believe firmly in God, but are brutal terrorists.
Why can't we have some people who believe in a good God, and do good stuff, but not because their deity told them so, but because they believe in a good cause? I mean, welfare for the sick and disabled who cannot help themselves, and protecting innocent immigrants from the harm of the people and give them a chance?
Why is such a belief considered a henious crime in many western countries?