artist4perry wrote:YoungJRNY wrote:RedWingFan wrote:Don't remember how many times I've said this on this forum.
If you want to tell your kids that their destiny is nothing but being worm food. Knock yourself out.
First off, why would any parent tell their kids such a thing? Who says that life and death needs to be discussed or explained for a child to understand such a thing at an early age and that we will be eaten by worms one day? That's not a way to handle a child and is completley irrelevant in this whole discussion. That's just being a bad parent. That's also like telling a child to not walk down that alley alone or that man down there is going to mug and molest you. Of course you won't tell your kid that. Why? Because it'll scare them. The Bible does nothing but scare people and would rather beat down a childrens brain that if you don't believe in an invisible man in the sky, then you will burn in hell for it. What is TRULY the right and wrong thing to raise a child? How about normal everyday life, things that we actually see and learn from everyday. The obvious stuff. That's a good place to start.
God is used as a figure of comfort of warmth for people who are absolutley scared to death of living, thus they need to obey by the Bible that tells them "everything they need to know when they die and this manual will tell you everything you need to know OR ELSE." It's a scare tactic to the highest degree if you ask me. Scares people, who are gullible as it comes anyway, to believing that there must be an answer for everything that has ever existed, and since this world will forever be the beholder of the unknown of how life does exist (even though there certainly are more logical findings and reading that are indeed proven and etched in stone from lady Earth herself with things such as scientific artifact and things that can be explained such as gravity of Earths pull. Don't believe me? Quick, grab a nearby pen, hold it out in front of you and let go of it. See what happens: PROOF that gravity exists) that humanity needs the comfort into knowing that this couldn't of come from nothing, thus believing in a higher power for comfort that we are here for a reason. Logic just doesn't support religion THE WHOLE WAY ACROSS THE BOARD, atleast in my eyes.
It doesn't bother me that people believe in such apparitions. I am the first to respect ones belief harder than I have ever respected ANYTHING ever before. It's just when it's talked about in a certain jest in vain that includes my own decisions and pushed upon myself to where I have a MAJOR problem with, a problem that pisses me off to no end.
I like you the way you are, you know this. But I don't like having my faith being put down any more than you like such things crammed down your throat. And I am far from afraid of living, also death holds no fear for me. Just a way of how one looks at it really.
Of course Ms. Ginger, and I don't mean to put anything down. I actually said the same thing to my girlfriend and me and you certainly have that same vibe going on here. I explained to her afterwards that no matter what you or I believe, is that all I know is that I love you more than ever and no certain belief or disbelief will change that. I told her that tomorrow isn't guranteed and that I will live today the way it's meant to live and faith will never change that outlook I have on life when it comes down to it. We both agreed.
That's just the way I feel and how these debates will certainly end up. I don't mean to offend anyone and I certainly won't be offended as well. These are just some of the things that need to be said looking from both ends of the spectrum in a debate that will always have things said that people won't be too fond about. Enter at your own risk.
