You may have heard the prayer god is great, god is good, let us thank him for our food, by his hand we are fed, give us lord our daily bread. I was thinking about saying grace and ended up writing a little poem. It's not as great as anything over at Digital Cuttlefish or anything, but maybe someone will like it. I guess that's what happens when you don't have anything to do riding in the back of a humvee all the time.
God is fable, god is fake
myths, wife's tales, a big mistake
Blindly following and misled
don't they know that god is dead?
It makes me so sad to see such hateful people raising children and spreading more hate in this world. I'm curious what you tell your children the meaning of Christmas is. Is it just another consumer holiday? Another reason to buy them more toys?
ReplyDeleteHey Anonymous, New Minority is not a hateful blog!
ReplyDeleteAs a fan of this blogger, I can tell you that from my perspective, I find the notion of roasting in hell for all eternity for not worshipping a particular god is a lot more hateful than an opinionated poem.
I wonder exactly what it was that I said that was hateful? I've told my daughter about jesus and santa claus. I'll let her make up her own mind instead of brain washing her into believing what I believe. If any religion has any truth to it, then she will find it with an open mind. Thanks for stopping by though.
ReplyDeleteOh, and thanks Glendon.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous, why are you being anonymous. You see my face and I have nothing to hide. What is it that you are hiding behind. Maybe your scared but you sound all to familiar. What is your "God" thinking about you judging others and there children, that is sad. So who are you? MAKE A REAL STAND FOR YOUR GOD, and don't ever bring my children into anything you may have to say. OK
ReplyDeleteNot like you need me to defend you.
ReplyDeleteBut drive-by critiquing you over one short verse - - !
Weirdness.
God is fable, god is fake
ReplyDeletemyths, wife's tales, a big mistake
Blindly following and misled
don't they know that god is dead?
Your logic is flawed! If God is dead, then that means he existed at some point in time. If, then, he did exist, then he can't be a fable, fake myth, wife's tale, or a mistake.
So what is it? Did he exist or not? You can't say he was fake while at the same time give indication that he existed.
There is a saying (I apologize that I can't remember who - but it wasn't me) which states that if you live like there is no God (or if he's dead), you had better be right ... 'cause if you're wrong ...!
Incidentally, this isn't a response of hate, just a response to flawed logic. If you interpret that as hate, that's not my fault - it's just another example of flawed logic.
By the way, if God is dead, then who is holding the world together?
Hey Bob,
ReplyDeleteSome where between here and Afghanistan I missed your comment. I just happened to come across it, so I thought I would comment. I doubt you are checking back to see if I responded, but maybe you checked the box to receive follow up emails.
When I said in the little poem that god is dead, it was actually a nod to Friedrich Nietzsche who famously said that god was dead. It doesn't mean that god existed and then died, it means that the idea of god is no longer necessary, and that it wasn't an acceptable belief. You can say something imaginary died, without meaning that it actually existed, like when Superman "died".
It's a common statement that "if you live like there is no God (or if he's dead), you had better be right ... 'cause if you're wrong ...!", but all though it's common, it doesn't mean that it doesn't have any flaws. The biggest mistake is that most people think that because god isn't a part of my life, that I'm immoral. Except for not believing in god, if he did happen to exist and he also happened to be the god of christianity, the only think he would find immoral was me not believing in him. The second biggest mistake about that statement is that it claims to know which god of the thousands of different ones worshiped over the millennia actually exists, and also how it thinks. What if god wants us to question his existence and think for ourselves?
Me personally, I haven't been contacted by god, don't see any good reason to believe in him, and until he does contact me, will just have to be moral without him.
Oh and gravity is holding the world together.
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