-- why don't you have to pretend to believe in my Flying Spaghetti Monster? Fair's fair, you know.
2006-11-01 23:35:04 · 14 answers · asked by ? 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
oh, wow! you don't have to pretend that you believe what others believe. doing that you're not being true to yourself. yes, yes, fair is fair, but what the f/uck is a flying spaghetti monster???
2006-11-02 12:58:13 · answer #1 · answered by thee wojc 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Firstly I think the vast majority of people who claim to believe in God actually do. As for the small minority who are either pretending or lying, it still gets them the social benefits that come with belonging to the social majority. And I'm sure that some who pretend to believe can actually convince themselves on some level that they do believe, thus giving them a form of comfort that comes with belief in a religion with an afterlife. No one sleeps better at night knowing they believe in the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
2006-11-02 07:45:52 · answer #2 · answered by Jacob H 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would never want you to pretend to believe in God.
I would not want my husband to be with me if he did not love me. It would hurt but I want honesty. God is the same way, he does not want you to pretend, he wants you to come willingly, besides he would know you were pretending.
Also life is not fair, regardless of whether you are God-Driven or driven by the flying spaghetti monster.
2006-11-02 07:47:44 · answer #3 · answered by freemansfox 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Great question!
So many religions each claiming to be right.
Please consider these tidbits:
Jews for Jesus = Vegetarians for Hamburgers
God? He or She?
Church? Christianity? Jesus? Dying?
What is the Imacculate Conception supposed to mean?
Does Imacculate Conception have anything to do with "VIRGIN BIRTH"?
Google "Imacculate Conception" and learn what it is. (no fooling)
What else do you falsely believe?
Jesus, the basis of Christianity? .
If Jesus died, he could NOT have been God.
Can Gods die?
If Jesus 'died' on Friday and 'undied' on Sunday, what else besides Saturday was sacrificed?
Did Jesus give up Saturday for us?
No Eternal sacrifice, big deal for a day!
If Jesus died for our sins, there should not be any more sins, else why go through with it?.
If Jesus really DIED, he should be dead, dead, dead!
Life after death is like virginity after childbirth.
If the flesh of Jesus died, what was seen walking and talking on Sunday?
If you believe this stuff, you are not going to like the folks who don't. You want them to believe it too to validate you.
Christians want everyone to convert to their non-thinking in order to be 'saved'.
Believing and not thinking is like choosing to be lost.
P.S.
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"Inter faeces et urinam nascimur" St. Augustine (be humble)
2006-11-02 07:43:55 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Freedom of Choice
http://www.submission.org/suras/sura33.html
[33:72] GOD have offered the responsibility (freedom of choice) to the heavens and the earth, and the mountains, but they refused to bear it, and were afraid of it. But the human being accepted it; he was transgressing, ignorant.
[33:73] For GOD will inevitably punish the hypocrite men and the hypocrite women, and the idol worshipping men and the idol worshipping women. GOD redeems the believing men and the believing women. GOD is Forgiver, Most Merciful.
2006-11-02 07:40:49 · answer #5 · answered by A2Z 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Damn. I was going to say, "Yes, you have to believe in my Flying Spaghetti Monster." Then I read the rest of your question.
May you be forever cradled in his noodly appendages. RAmen.
2006-11-02 07:41:14 · answer #6 · answered by marbledog 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't pretend!
I was touched by his noodly appendage and thenceforth dedicated my life to becoming a pirate!
I have seen the mountain and the trees and the midget... they're still around y'know....
RAmen!
2006-11-02 07:40:18 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No one asked you to pretend to believe. Either you do or you don't . It's your choice.
2006-11-02 07:48:40 · answer #8 · answered by rose v 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one wants or respects a pretender!
2006-11-02 07:39:38 · answer #9 · answered by Tina 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
each individual must do what they feel in their heart is the right thing to do. no one has the right to force another to go against what they believe to be right.
2006-11-02 08:12:19 · answer #10 · answered by Marvin R 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋