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.
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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.
Why? Taken at face value it's kind of cute. An authority figure cut down by a smart *** kid.Regardless of whether or not it's a true story, it's still disturbing that people actually liked this story.
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.
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?
except its an all to accurate depiction of some fundamentalist ideology, mind set and behavior.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.
I've seen your posts, nothing good or beautiful their.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.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...
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.
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.
I've seen your posts, nothing good or beautiful their.
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?
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.
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.No kidding. Atheist teachers like to squash the hopes and dreams of little Christians.
Ave Satanas!And that is your choice to make.
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.