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The Sum of Awe

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Premium Member
Then you should be very disturbed.

I always wanted to know why God would be worthy of worship if there is such a thing as hell. There either isn't hell and God is good. Or there is hell and worship an evil God to avoid hell.
 

Sonofason

Well-Known Member
I always wanted to know why God would be worthy of worship if there is such a thing as hell. There either isn't hell and God is good. Or there is hell and worship an evil God to avoid hell.

Or hell isn't what you think it is.

Or you are wrong in your assumptions about what is good, and what is not.

Or you don't understand God as you should.

Or...
 

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
It wasn't so much about Jonah and the big fish (it does NOT say whale), but more about a child's thoughts. I think I may have smiled when I read it. I don't think we need to take these kinds of stories so seriously. The child was being rather cheeky.
 

adi2d

Active Member
Just one more unfortunate kid brainwashed into believing the bible(their interpretation of what it says) over science. Sad really
 

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Staff member
Premium Member
Regardless of whether or not it's a true story, it's still disturbing that people actually liked this story.
 

The Sum of Awe

Brought to you by the moment that spacetime began.
Staff member
Premium Member
Why? Taken at face value it's kind of cute. An authority figure cut down by a smart *** kid.

Refusing to accept the physical impossibility of a human being swallowed by a whale (with the exception of a sperm whale), and then threatening the person teaching them to hellfire.
 

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
Refusing to accept the physical impossibility of a human being swallowed by a whale (with the exception of a sperm whale), and then threatening the person teaching them to hellfire.

You're really not supposed to take it seriously. Little kids say things like this all the time, not just about various faiths but about anything else. Besides, the story is more than likely fiction.
 

Pegg

Jehovah our God is One
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A lot of people liked it. I am sort of disturbed by this. Does anyone here actually think this is a good message? Does it bother you as much as it bothers me that this had over a thousand likes?

the teachers comments are more concerning then the little girls... the teacher is supposed to be an adult and a mature adult... obviously she has some issues.
 

Iti oj

Global warming is real and we need to act
Premium Member
It wasn't so much about Jonah and the big fish (it does NOT say whale), but more about a child's thoughts. I think I may have smiled when I read it. I don't think we need to take these kinds of stories so seriously. The child was being rather cheeky.
except its an all to accurate depiction of some fundamentalist ideology, mind set and behavior.
 

Iti oj

Global warming is real and we need to act
Premium Member
Or hell isn't what you think it is.

Or you are wrong in your assumptions about what is good, and what is not.

Or you don't understand God as you should.

Or...
I've seen your posts, nothing good or beautiful their.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
Those sorts of school jokes have been going around for so long their not funny, but I've always found them to be rather lame, like the one about Einstein supposedly asking how do we know the teachers brain is real if he has never seen it. And the amount of people who believe yet another thing Einstein never said, or the teacher's chalk miraculously going down his jacket sleeve, or the kid telling the teachers going to hell is far more disturbing than the actual content itself.

Or hell isn't what you think it is.

Or you are wrong in your assumptions about what is good, and what is not.

Or you don't understand God as you should.

Or...
We're human. We are very flawed. I don't anything to do with a god that would punish anyone for eternity over a few years of mistakes.
 

Sonofason

Well-Known Member
the teachers comments are more concerning then the little girls... the teacher is supposed to be an adult and a mature adult... obviously she has some issues.

No kidding. Atheist teachers like to squash the hopes and dreams of little Christians.
 

Sonofason

Well-Known Member
I've seen your posts, nothing good or beautiful their.

Well, it's apparent you're going to avoid answering. After all, I've just shown you that your either/or scenario is illogical and false. I've just shown you that you don't know what you think you know. I can't blame you for not responding. What sort of response could you possibly muster? As it is, Nada.
 

Willamena

Just me
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A lot of people liked it. I am sort of disturbed by this. Does anyone here actually think this is a good message? Does it bother you as much as it bothers me that this had over a thousand likes?

Fake. "A little girl" said something adultly clever-- never going to happen. :)

Can't speak to the "likes."
 

Sonofason

Well-Known Member
Those sorts of school jokes have been going around for so long their not funny, but I've always found them to be rather lame, like the one about Einstein supposedly asking how do we know the teachers brain is real if he has never seen it. And the amount of people who believe yet another thing Einstein never said, or the teacher's chalk miraculously going down his jacket sleeve, or the kid telling the teachers going to hell is far more disturbing than the actual content itself.


We're human. We are very flawed. I don't anything to do with a god that would punish anyone for eternity over a few years of mistakes.

And that is your choice to make.
 

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
No kidding. Atheist teachers like to squash the hopes and dreams of little Christians.
University teachers especially hold this stereotype among ultra conservatives. I have yet to actually see it. I've seen plenty of respect and tolerance towards Christianity, Islam, and once the entire class, including the teacher, was fascinated by a Hare Krishna student's report that related class readings to the story of Krishna subduing Kaliyah.
I have had one very Conservative Christian philosophy teacher though that got pretty pushy with her believes and didn't cover any of the philosophers in the text book that attacked Christianity or religion in general. It was pretty funny whenever I threw out something she couldn't answer, like when I asked "what caused god? If everything has a first cause, then god could not be the ultimate first cause because something would have had to have caused god." She looked like a deer caught in headlights.
 

Sonofason

Well-Known Member
University teachers especially hold this stereotype among ultra conservatives. I have yet to actually see it. I've seen plenty of respect and tolerance towards Christianity, Islam, and once the entire class, including the teacher, was fascinated by a Hare Krishna student's report that related class readings to the story of Krishna subduing Kaliyah.
I have had one very Conservative Christian philosophy teacher though that got pretty pushy with her believes and didn't cover any of the philosophers in the text book that attacked Christianity or religion in general. It was pretty funny whenever I threw out something she couldn't answer, like when I asked "what caused god? If everything has a first cause, then god could not be the ultimate first cause because something would have had to have caused god." She looked like a deer caught in headlights.

Of course she was caught like a deer in the headlights. She didn't know her scripture. She should have told you that God is eternal, and therefore has no cause. But you got her good, didn't you?

You must feel so proud.
 
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