Life… and stuff
July 20, 2008
The more time I spend being as freethinker vs. religious guy, the happier I am. When I was a Christian I prided myself of knowing the answers to all those ‘hard’ questions of life. Is there a God? Why are we here? How we came to be? On and on.
Then came the hard questions. Is there hell? Why is there hell? If God is all powerful, then why do illogical things happen. Why was it OK for Old Testament guys to kill, rape and loot all they wanted? Sure, as a Christian you can throw at me several hundred books and the same amount of answers to all those questions.
But, now listen carefully. The thing is – these answers are good and satisfactory only as long as you are a Christian. To non-christian these are pure nonsense and playing mental games to figure out why you still possess the truth monopoly, why still your way is the right one.
Maybe I don’t need God to kill himself and then resurrect himself on 3rd day 2000 years ago, so that I can be saved from my horrid sins. Maybe sin is just human concept. Maybe God is just human concept.
Try as we may, we can’t explain all things and to me God is not an answer to those either.
I like unknown.
You should try it too.
DMD.
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Anonymous | July 20, 2008 at 23:12
Hi freethinker. I’m a freethinker too. I am also a Christian. How is it that you were a Christian and now are no longer a Christian?
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Viljo Marrandi | July 20, 2008 at 23:19
As a Christian, you might be not-so-free thinker. Just kidding
. Actually when I left the flock I wrote a post about it – http://1and1isyes.wordpress.com/2006/10/25/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/
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solar1 | July 21, 2008 at 2:40
An interesting post for sure, and I can understand the sentiment, but you’re wrong (what a free-thinking guy I am). You are right about a lot of the answers being nonsense unless you already believe, but isn’t tthat true with a lot of things? If you go from different spaces on Monopoly and move 10 spaces, you won’t be on the same space afterwards.
You say you prided yourself on knowing the answers, that may have been your problem.
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Viljo Marrandi | July 21, 2008 at 8:11
Yes, of course I am wrong and you are right.
Actually it was a joke about your free thinking. I can’t know and in no way I want to judge how free your thinking is. And why would I even do that. I just write about my point of view. I know others might not agree with that, but also please don’t try to convince me that I’m wrong.
By ‘prided’ I meant that I was happy to have all the answers, not that I was cocky and rubbed that under everyone nose. That’s not me.
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Umumba Tulumba | August 15, 2008 at 14:03
Quote: “Maybe I don’t need God to kill himself and then resurrect himself on 3rd day 2000 years ago, so that I can be saved from my horrid sins. Maybe sin is just human concept. Maybe God is just human concept”…….
Do you still doubt?
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Viljo Marrandi | August 15, 2008 at 14:09
No, these questions are not for me, but for readers.