Christian values.
Look at the trees, the stars and the ocean waves, are they not beautiful, and do they not prove that the creator god exists. And that he is benevolent and wise beyond our imagination to have created such wonders and beauties, and given them to us.
God loathes the corruption and evil of this world, and will soon destroy it, as he did before, and take us away to a far better place. Where we will be free from all these material burdens that trouble us in this world, and our fake loves for merely material things.
Eh ?
Nothing in nature proves, or even gives evidence of God. Even if a god existed, the natural world demonstrates neither wisdom and certainly not benevolence (unless you happen to be a privileged White male). #2 is just schizophrenic gibberish.
The point was to make plain the logical gibberish, of holding the two views at the same time.
Thanks for the heads-up.
On #2, It is the paradox of our time that the Christians will embrace and defend the worst corruption while claiming to be morally superior and denouncing corruption and evil. That must be my form of cognitive dissonance!
On #1, the statement embodies the rejection of an understanding of beauty, of the world and the stars; a sort of carefully trained ignorance that discards discovered truths in favor of simplistic or simply infantile perspectives.
I have lost count of people who tell me how wrong I am to question whether there is a god or not, because how can I possibly question while gazing at a beautiful sunset, a rainbow or a flower. Um... because I paid a tiny bit of attention during science class.
Another way of looking at it is how, if there really is a merciful gawd, is there such a place as Auschwitz. For every example one might give for proof of a benevolent creator (sunsets, rainbows, etc.), I can give another one demonstrating the absence of such a creator. I imagine that more prayers were flying around Auschwitz than there have been anywhere and any place in history and yet there is a pile of human ashes there the size of 6000 football fields and one mile deep.
All Things Dull and Ugly
Monty Python
All things dull and ugly
All creatures short and squat
All things rude and nasty
The Lord God made the lot
Each little snake that poisons
Each little wasp that stings
He made their brutish venom
He made their horrid wings
All things sick and cancerous
All evil great and small
All things foul and dangerous
The Lord God made them all
Each nasty little hornet
Each beastly little squid
Who made the spiky urchin?
Who made the sharks? He did
All things scabbed and ulcerous
All pox both great and small
Putrid, foul and gangrenous
The Lord God made them all
Amen
Songwriters: Eric Idle, Trad
I have never read or seen this before. Thanks!
I had forgoten that one. lol
God is bipolar.He should be on mood stabilizers, or smoke pot, or something to chill out.
God is schizophrenic
He's also not a very good shepherd if he can't control his own flock.
So flock you, god.
Hard to believe that a solid agnostic such as yourself posted these.
Trees and ocean waves are indeed beautiful...but they do NOT prove a creator exists.
And why do they constantly refer to a creator as "he"?
Why "sexualize" an alleged creator or creating force?
And what evidence is there that "God loathes the corruption and evil of this world"
Again...what's your motive for sharing these obviously fraudulent POV's @Fernapple?
You have misunderstood, they are not my values, they are "Christian" values as it says at the top. The piece was intended to be ironic.
Read it again please especially the last line.
Like your meme.
@Fernapple Tip; a little disclaimer would have helped.
Thanks for the boost on the meme! Here's a few more.
Please, fellow agnostics...feel free to copy/save/share!
@Robecology No, I like playing the irony game, sorry.
@Robecology I like the last one especially. Do your bullying by proxy.
Nature is the only religion I practice. These Gods all claim their God is the right God and their God is the owner of everything in nature, including our lives.
I really dislike bullies.
As natural as the trees is disease that disfigures and kills. Trees burn when drought and wildfires ravage leaving ash and blacked charcoal behind. As much beauty as we find in the natural world, there is plenty we consider ugly and horrific. They are two sides of the same coin and only our consideration makes which side which (flies swarm to elements of the natural world we consider foul and repugnant). Regardless, the coin has one "maker" - one source. We can't attribute the beautiful to one source and refuse to assign the other to the same source.
Yes they ignore that completely.
A couple of years ago 2 Baptist women came by and knocked on my door. I told them I no longer believe and the reply i got was "look at the trees." If you try this be aware that the trees are proof of trees. I think that I shall never see (a poem) or anything as beautiful as a tree.
When I told a religious zealot I was unaware of any reason to believe he said "just look around". I told him I have and everything I saw was explainable.
…except his zealotry
@yvilletom Such zealotry is indeed inexplicable.
Most religions are full of contradictions….especially applicable in the case of Christianity!
According to Bill O'Reilly nobody knows why the tides go in and out. He said that over the air once in an interview. LMAO.
@DenoPenno Mmmmm and all this time I thought it was because of the moon's gravity. Guess I was wrong.