RE: 61805
You have little or no faith because you do not walk with God.
Once you agree to walk with God He will provide more faith.

A soul will surely die without being fed the truth. That is why we all desire to seek it. Like water to a dehydrated plant it restores, replenishes, and develops us for the life that was specifically designed for us. If you love science and nature pay attention. It is all there. The
story is in your environment already.
Ask God to reveal Himself to you. And then pay attention.
Without truth our entire life will be a dry and shriveled version of what it may have been; dying, dwindling, struggling and waiting to eventually be destroyed.

This is “Truthdig”. You are reading “Truth” dig?
The name says it all. You are a seeker already. Do it up!!!!

Blessings to you with all sincerity - Jesus Freak

Re#61727 by Jesus Freak on 4/02

Indeed, the search for truth IS a sign of an open mind, open heart, and a willingness to learn.

The willingness to learn, for instance, that the compilation of filth called the bible is nothing more than lies very poorly plagiarized from earlier fairy tales, legends, and stories from other cultures. 

When one learns this, one finds it very hard to justify the sh*t being done in the name of that book of filth. 

One COULD learn that, if one had “an open mind, open heart, and a willingness to learn.”

The choice is always yours, Jesus Freak.

response to comment #61352

The desire to search truth is a sign of an open mind, open heart, and a willingness to learn

The desire not to search the truth is a sign of a closed mind, hard heart, and a willingness to remain blind and ignorant. 

The choice is always yours.

Re: Comment #61039 by John Hanks on 3/28 at 4:20 pm

“Jesus hates phonies and blockheads.  Religious people do not go after God with a shotgun.  They “wait on the lord”.”
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Jesus is a 2000 year old dead Jew.  Once you’re dead, you can’t experience emotions like hate.  Christians, on the other hand, while they are still alive, are masters of hate.  Without hate, ignorance and bigotry, Christians would have nothing to do.

Re: Comment #61318 by Matt on 3/30 at 5:13 am

Right on Matt! Well stated.

Regarding “AggieKnostic” stating: “Educate yourself on religions and why they are the way they are and then be inspirational to everyone. “

Like we have time in our lives to study nonsense?
I was raised Christian but I left the cult.
Sadly though, not early enough in my life.
I’ve read their “book” and listened to their preaching.
Maybe you meant something very different by “educate yourself”.
Perhaps university study?
Which of the cults should we seek guidance on?
Should we study the Greek, Roman, Sumerian, Aztecs,
Mayans, Egyptian and the other historical forms of
delusion for a pretext?
Or do we jump right into the cults still in existence?
What of the Pastafarians and their Flying Spaghetti Monster deity?
What do we do professor?

We already know why they are the way they are,
they’re deluded. You’re deluded too.
Go “inspire” yourself!

“Lets not flap tollerance out of one side of our lips as we’re flapping intollerance out of the other.”

You mean like pretending we’re all friends on this Earth while privately believing that everyone who thinks differently will burn in eternal hellfire? Intolerance of that degree makes people who merely think the virus of religion is stupid seem pretty level headed.

Re#60796 by Lefty:

Of course it’s exhausting.  That’s why when asked to prove that compilation of plagiarized lies they use to justify killing and torturing people they can do no better than the likes of billy flynn’s childish name calling. 

They simply have no energy left to think about how profoundly sick and incredibly stupid they really are.  But that’s the point. 

When training a dog, you run him first, to get some of his energy burnt off.  As our trainer said, “A tired dog is a good dog.” Similarly, a tired degenerate moron is a good xian.

Just ask the adulterer Swaggart, the closet queen Haggard, or any pederast priest.  They are good dogs, oops, I mean good xians, just like their xian forefathers who raped young girls then condemned them as harlots. 

Don’t be so hard on them, lefty, it’s just so tiring to live one way in private and fake another in public.

Not an exciting interview, never went anyplace. 

Christianity is interesting, until it becomes religion.

Jesus hates phonies and blockheads.  Religious people do not go after God with a shotgun.  They “wait on the lord”.

The religious make up a large percentage of your world, so if you want to make it a better place wouldn’t it be advisable to engage in dialogue with them as though they were also human beings.
Maybe you can be patient enough in all of your superiority to tollerate them.
Intollerance is the virus here and it isn’t any less toxic when it comes from the left side of the fence than it is from the right.
Lets not flap tollerance out of one side of our lips as we’re flapping intollerance out of the other.
Educate yourself on religions and why they are the way they are and then be inspirational to everyone.
Sorry to rant, maybe I’m just one of those ridiculous peaceniks.

Bush using religion was an invention of Carl Rove, and was Bush religious when he was governor of texas?

The republicians just used the concertative religious people of the south for their own purposes, and now the people are beginning to see Bush as an emply headed CEO, the only difference is CEO’s have their own company to worry about this Emperor without clothes pretends to lead the United States and now we have this Gonzales person who is another person who can not do his job.

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington

The mental gymnastics that christians have to engage in, both personally and publicly, in the futile attempt to reconcile their faith with reality must be an exhausting existence.

Broiler, I couldn’t have said it any better!  Please keep religion in any of its deluded and antiquated form off of Truthdig.

republicans and their evangelical fanatics will want you to think that the resources of the world are endless and that if you pray and work hard enough you will also be rich and happy…

the next chapter of this twisted book is about to begin upon the world…

Why should gay marriage and abortion bother this
clown at all? I take it he claims to be both
heterosexual and a man. Has someone forced him
to marry a gay or abort a pregnancy? How can you
have any reasonable discussion with the premise of
equating individual concerns such as gay marriage
and abortion with global warming and poverty?

Just another ancient literature peddling ass-clown.
We should listen to him spout off on the podcast why?
Do these whack jobs need a public pulpit along
with the one in their own sanctuary? You give
these delusional moderates credibility by including
them here. He sees the fundamentalists going down
in flames and takes a moderate stance to maintain his
stature in the community and keep the funds flowing.
We already know these guys are out there.
Every town has an idiot.