You should keep doing it. Don't fear the Christians though. They won't put a sword to your neck.

I blame man for man's imperfections. I blame a system of brainwashing and dogma for the corruption of people's spiritual followings. The Hebrew God had nothing to do with christianity, it's formation, or it's corruption of the spirituality or religion of people. I believe once Jesus had a speech about taxes, coins ect where he said give to God what belongs to God, and Give to man what belongs to man. The belief that God had anything to do with Christianity in it's modern or even ancient form as understood by modern man per my opinion has nothing to do with God, and everything to do with the failings of man. In some ways one can view Christianity itself as a test of spiritual fortitude tempting people to sin in the name of God which is the most appealing sin in existence for a Christian since it allows one to sin and them justify it blaming responsibility on their god. My struggle to get my own family to accept my spiritual differences was not easy, and took years of talking with them time and time again feeling unloved and unaccepted but as good Christians they eventually came to understand that rather than rejecting spirituality I was rejecting a system that was wrong for me. When I recently argued with my mother about her own belief she said something to the effect that it works for her and she is content, and many of the concepts I toy with in my mind are beyond her understanding leaving her content to let me puzzle these out while accepting her more straight forward simple views. This in itself was simply her response though she then later started reading a thing or two about the nature of Christianity and has even asked for my help in understanding a book she read but couldn't quite understand.

My personal belief is that Christianity as a following of Christ is a failure. I acknowledge that the Christian system seems to work for some people, but it is by far relatively few when you consider how many it corrupts per my opinion. I believe this because I personally believe most of the teachins of Christ were simple to understand and propgated love, respect, and spirituality. I also believe when someone steps away from Chrisitanity it has nothing to do with Christ and that they are leaving a system of spiritual dogma (or even slavery) in order to seek their own truth.

Those that can not find their own way are forced to follow others. Those that can find their own path are more likely to accept with totality the teachings of others.

Divorcing oneself from a system or establishment is seperate from divorcing oneself from spirituality or religion in general. Some call it being lost but I think of it as finding oneself, and realizing that an individual's personal path to enlightenment is more meaningful than submission to a system created by other humans.

Any person within this system that truly follows their personal heart and is able to maintain spiritual integrity within this system is fine by me. It is those that let the system warp their spirits or corrupt their religion that I take issue with even if I realize that the source of damage is the system rather than their personal choice. I view them as victims of the system and rather than attack them as spiritual beings simply wish for them to allow themselves enough spiritual freedom and self respect to find themselves and their own true belief.

I once was debating with a Christian who questioned my tendency to give Christians a lot of challenges to face regarding their faith. My answer was that anything I say whether I say it badly or perfectly is simply an attempt to free their mind and their soul. If my statements shake their faith it is meant to be shaken, and when someone is brainwashed by a system of dogma for a lifetime my statements should mean little to a true believer and would only change the views of a false believer without conviction who never took the time to examine their own beliefs realistically. (This is paraphrased I fail to remember the exact words used in the discussion on either side I only remember the concept.)

We control our own actions. God didn't cause Jephtha to make that promise and he didn't cause the girl to come out of the house. We are each responsible for our own actions.



I'm not. I thought I was, but I have known I'm not for several months.



You aren't saved by how much good or evil you have done.

------If you kept your club ideals to yourselves and didnt try to force them on others then you may be a little more acceptable to the rest of humanity---------

well you could say the same thing about islam as well

Therefore, all of your expressions which have been based upon that misappropriation have been based upon a false premise. Your false premise.

What point are you trying to make anyway?

Therefore, all of your expressions which have been based upon that misappropriation have been based upon a false premise. Your false premise.

LOL,

He's talking about gods such as cows and other animals on land, sea, or imagined gods like Buddha or Confucius that many people worship. Even the American Indian and other people around the world had different gods, often in the form of animals, they worshipped.
The interesting thing here is that even when separated on different continents by oceans, having no contact for ages, all people had an inner sense of something greater than themselves. Some inner feeling that there was a god. They all worshipped a God in one form or another.
That was/is a knowledge placed in all our souls by the one God. Only as time and oceans separated us that knowledge became confused and changed. Just as it is now on this thread.
The passages you are reading is God making himself clear to the people of Israel that he is the one and same God. He is putting it down in law and charging his chosen people the task of spreading the word and correcting the misunderstandings of who is God to all the peoples of the earth.

Spot on Glen! Post killer.

And your above response to Abra does not answer his questions. Why do you demand facts, logic, knowledge from our ideas or conclusions and yet you do not offer any to support your own?

you have won nothing, you have defeated no one - you have only proven that it's impossible for human's of different thinking on religious matter's to communicate i shook my head yesterday and said to myself - futile believer's - it's not worth my time to continue this any longer - if your god did exist - he would be anything but happy with your way's but since he does not - it's a mute point - your nothing more than senseless cattle being hearded by a book of man's creation following blindly to the slaughter that your god does so well.

byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef9jKHwHueQ&feature=related
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It's neither prejudice nor moral judgment of any kind to believe that something is false.