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Reality vs. Fantasy
09.22.04 (7:31 am)   [edit]
Ultimately, reality wins out. You can believe the earth is flat but reality proves otherwise. You can believe the earth (and everything else) was created in six days by a Creator (who may or may not have created itself) but reality shows otherwise. You can believe in a God or Gods that randomly fulfill and ignore your prayers or you can non-randomly ignore them and get on with making your life better. You can believe that God speaks only through money-seeking televangelists or grenade-launching fanatics, or you can believe that God speaks to everyone equally, or you can ignore God and all the hypocrises and baggage that go with human-perverted dogma. Children are born with no concept of God but they know how to explore - that's reality. Is it right to curb that curiosity with mind-numbing dogma about a fantasy? Is it right to downplay how amazing our world by comparing to the unattainable fantasy called Heaven? Is it right to lay the conceptual burden of Hell on kids when they just want to get through another day at school?


Worse, we have folks battling over which Prophet or Messenger or Messiah is the greater. If God is one then there should be no battle - period. Prophets, Messiahs, Messengers are not God and to worship them as anything more is an affront to God (Commandment #1 / #2) so, again, these battles aren't holy or sanctified, they're stupid. Here's an idea: Want to find out which non-God God is most powerful? Wait for them to return and let them battle it out. While waiting, shelve the armaments, and go play with the kids, tend the garden, do something productive.

 


posted by: lawngnome (reply)
post date: 09.22.04 (3:31 pm)

An interesting read. Very common sence.



posted by: GypsyWynd (reply)
post date: 09.24.04 (8:14 pm)

You are exactly right.

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