September 12, 2001
up until that day I had wrestled with the existence of a Supreme Being, specifically the one called God…since that day, I assumed there was no such thing…the hijackers seemed to think THEY were doing God’s work…the people who killed a Doctor (because he performed abortions) apparently assumed THEY were doing God’s work…Now, right off the bat, one of their Ten Commandments is THOU SHALL NOT KILL…it doesn’t say “except for doctors who perform abortions”…I have no idea if Hitler felt that HE was doing God’s work when he carried out the extermination of six million Jews, for all *I* know Hitler may have been an atheist too…
I’m not an English major, but I think “good” and “evil” are adjectives, and as far as *I* can tell ANY adjective is subjective…like “loud”, or “smooth” or “funny” or “cold”…By that reasoning the 9/11 hijackers likely assumed they were doing “good” against the “evil” Americans…why they feel the way they did is a mystery to me…and of course it’s still going on…
one of the conditions (for lack of a better word) of being an Atheist is there’s no one to blame for the bad stuff that happens to ya…and there’s no one to thank for the good stuff…[Stuff] Happens, it really could be as simple as that…Don’t point to the sky and tell me that’s God’s work–that’s just the atmosphere surrounding our Planet…Don’t point to that bird singing in that tree, that bird is the offspring of a bird that is the offspring of a bird which is the offspring of a bird, etc., ad infinitum back millions of years…in other words–SCIENCE…and if there is/was a Supreme Being, why would He (she/it) NEED a “middleman” like Jesus for instance…*I* just wanna talk to the Manager, not the assistant Manager…Because the more an idea is repeated and/or interpreted (through dozens of centuries) the more it gets “modified” until it no longer resembles the original idea…I believe abortion (to cite just the most obvious example) didn’t exist in “Biblical” times…so how could “the Manager” have an opinion on it…
If you want to believe in a mythical deity and all the man-made stories surrounding it, I won’t stop you…But if I’m willing to respect your right to believe, you should respect my right NOT to believe…I also DEMAND the right to be wrong…but I don’t think I am…I’ve said before that I’m not a courageous man…and for that reason, I didn’t put this on the OTHER FB…but it COULD happen–just don’t hold yer breath…
People often slip into believing that if something is declared OFFICIAL, that it then carries the Weight of Authority, and that makes it true. In his speeches Hitler often mentioned that he was a Christian man. Well, that makes it OFFICIAL…
Nope. I don’t believe him, or anybody else who makes the same claim. Now back in the Dark Ages in Europe, it was OFFICIAL that the Earth was flat. They burned Bruno at the stake for saying otherwise. Meanwhile, on every other continent on the planet, there were people who had already figured out that the Earth is round. It wasn’t an issue in China, India, Africa, or North and South America. They even knew that the Earth was round in Australia back then. There was even a Greek philosopher who had figured out just how round the Earth was, and he was only off by a few miles…
As a New Ager, I’m sure you know that I don’t think that God is like unto some monster that crawled out of a Marvel Comic book. God does speak to us, but we really don’t understand the language. That Language is Mathematics, Geometry, Vibration, and all of the Processes of Life : The Laws of Nature. It’s a pretty heavy duty message. Scientists probably don’t know that they are trying to figure out the Language in which God speaks. That doesn’t matter, because they are getting better at it…