To Answer Honestly, I Wanna Be Where Ever My Family & Love Ones Are..
And I Dont Need No Site To Tell Me That. But Thank You.
~*~*~*~*~*~ Peace. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~
2006-06-21 06:45:33
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answer #1
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answered by Brat-tett & Brat Pack's 5
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Not on your terms. or your gods terms.
As I write this I've been a non-Christian for about two and a half years. In that time I've read and written much about the flaws and fallacies of Christianity.
Christianity makes a mockery of God. At the same time that Christians claim to worship God as an omnipotent, omnipresent, omnibenevolent being, they make him out to be incompetent bumbler. Or worse. Simple forgiveness is beyond his capacities. God must "sacrifice himself to himself to change a rule he made himself!"
This is not only an absurdity, it is an essential absurdity. It is present in almost almost all forms of Christianity, and one can scarcely remove it and remain a Christian in anything but name. By definition, all Christians worship Christ - in some form - and most worship him as a saviour.
But what, exactly, is he saving us from? Though it varies from church to church, no matter what they call it, it's God himself. A hell created by God, a world fallen as a result of God's negligence, a separation from God imposed... by God.
"It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment, or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being."
- Dan Barker, Losing Faith in Faith Christianity certainly isn't the first religion to promote appeasement of its gods, and if it were merely another supernatural protection racket, it would be bad enough. Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there. Christians elevate appeasement to the realm of "personal relationship", transforming their religion into a true monstrosity.
This is the type of "relationship" that abused wives have with their husbands, that brainwashed hostages have with their captors. It is known in clinical circles as Stockholm Syndrome. Should it come as any surprise that the cries of the church, "The Bride of Christ" sound much like the cries of an abused wife attempting to protect her husband?
"He must beat me."
"I deserve it."
"He has no choice."
"It's for my own good."
These excuses don't work for human abusers, and they work even less well for God. For if God is omnipotent, he must have a choice. And if we are flawed, we are only flawed because that is the way he made us. (No excuses that we ruined his perfect creation. A truly perfect creation does not self-destruct.)
If the Christian God does exist - and I see no reason to believe that he does - he's not worthy of the name.
And that is the ultimate absurdity of Christianity.
2006-06-21 06:42:16
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answer #2
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answered by Anonymous
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thanks, i don't need a website to know that I will be with God when i die, though others might. i feel sorry for the person who answered you as an ex-christian. i believe she can come back... but it will be much harder. i think this is one of those things that God hates the most... somewhere in Romans it talks about how the punishment for going against Him once you've known Him is worse than anything we could ever imagine. Its different if someone never knew Him, but to know Him and deny Him is a whole different story. good luck with that one. i hope he will take mercy on you. God bless!
2006-06-21 06:49:08
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answer #3
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answered by Anonymous
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I'd like to go to a peaceful place when I die, if heaven is like this then yes- but no one knows what heaven is like or really going to research it are they? one of life's little mysteries.
2006-06-21 06:50:15
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answer #4
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answered by she-devil 1
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I wish I was always 17, but having on mind that that is impossible, then I'd really like to go to heaven.
2006-06-21 06:44:36
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answer #5
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answered by Genio Atrapado 5
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If it were up to me yes, but that is in the hands of God. When you are born it is already pre-desitined where you will go before you have even lived your life. So sadly you don't have a choice. God already knows how your life will end up. It's just a matter of when and where it will end.
2006-06-21 06:43:57
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answer #6
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answered by shinedown1021 1
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Go live your life. Here is a secret. There is not Heaven only your life here and now.
2006-06-21 06:50:24
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answer #7
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answered by Anonymous
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I am a Hindu, I don't believe in Heaven!! I believe in being reincarnated into a higher aspect of life.
2006-06-21 06:43:18
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answer #8
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answered by Anonymous
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I am going to heaven
2006-06-21 06:45:48
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answer #9
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answered by Coodles 5
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Yipe...
kero_bearus, you are one of the few non-Christians on here who argue using logic and not blind hatred, but I think you're wrong on a number of points. Respect.
2006-06-21 06:56:13
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answer #10
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answered by Anonymous
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