Ok, read this page, couldn't help myself....
I once had a pair of pet hamsters. The female got pregnant, but I never noticed. One day, I saw she had blood all over her, and panicking, I picked her up.
She was in labor. Because I disturbed her, she ate all her young.
aaagh! How old were you? traumatizing.....but a great example. Why am I laughing? Does this mean I'm going to hell?
Why would god follow a human model? I thought he was supposed to be better than us.
With all the metaphors I've heard from religious relatives and pastors and priests at weddings, I can't believe this simple sentence never popped into my head.
Well that's all good but you don't have the knowledge that he; God exists and wants a relationship with you.
Maybe that's a scary idea for most; to know there's more to this life than you can imagine.
First, it's not a scary thought. I don't know why condescending religious fanboys have this locked in their minds. It doesn't scare, or even make us nervous. The idea is simply ludicrous, and such an obvious creation of frightened, gullible, arrogant human imaginations as to be rejected out of hand, or after close examination, whichever.
Second, you're right. Bad vibe doesn't have the knowledge that God exists. But news flash,
neither do you! You have a faith, a belief, a hunch, a feeling, a hope, a tingle, a void, a need, a want, a desire, a requirement and even an imperative, but the last fuxking thing you have is knowledge of God's existence. To say you have such knowledge is the tantamount of arrogance, or stupidity, or both. On the topic of knowledge, I believe no human can truly know anything other than a) individually, they exist and b)what is commonly observed and verifiable by evidence that is repeatable.
Where did you glean this knowledge? In church, after murmuring prayers for hours straight, working yourself into a state where you 'felt' God? In confessional, when the Father arbitrarily absolved you of all sins in exchange for some prayers and maybe a donation? Through your entire life's experience, to which you are completely subjective, and yet were somehow able to extract objective truths?
Thirdly, that's a colossal piece of arrogance you're touting. An omniscient being that created trillions of stars and all of space time, and all of the possible forms of life, and goings on, wants a personal relationship with each and every individual human? Nevermind that in the unlikely event that God is as you say, and is in everything, including me, I can't think of a more personal relationship than being me, the food I eat and later excrete. Forget that. Isn't it far more likely that a human created and maintained organization wants our money and devotion, and to keep us believeing this tripe? seems to be the way it's gone for the last millenia or so.
