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 Chris Hedges: I Don’t Believe in AtheistsPosted on May 23, 2007
By Chris Hedges (Page 2) It is by the seriousness of our commitments to compassion, indeed our ability to sacrifice for the other, especially for the outcast and the stranger, our commitment to justice—the very core of the message of the prophets and the teachings of Jesus—that we alone can measure the quality of faith. This is the meaning of true faith. As Matthew wrote. “By their fruits shall you know them.” Professed faith—what we say we believe—is not faith. It is an expression of loyalty to a community, to our tribe. Faith is what we do. This is real faith. Faith is the sister of justice. And the prophets reminded us that nothing is exempt from criticism. Revelation is continuous. It points beyond itself. And doubt, as well as a request for forgiveness, must be included in every act of faith, for we can never know or understand the will of God. The problem is not religion but religious orthodoxy. Most moral thinkers—from Socrates to Christ to Francis of Assisi—eschewed the written word because they knew, I suspect, that once things were written down they became, in the wrong hands, codified and used not to promote morality but conformity, subservience and repression. Writing freezes speech. George Steiner calls this “the decay into writing.” Language is turned from a living and fluid form of moral inquiry to a tool of bondage. The moment the writers of the Gospels set down the words of Jesus they began to kill the message. There is no room for prophets within religious institutions—indeed within any institutions—for as Paul Tillich knew, all human institutions, including the church, are inherently demonic. Tribal societies persecute and silence prophets. Open societies tolerate them at their fringes, and our prophets today come not from the church but from our artists, poets and writers who follow their inner authority. Samuel Beckett’s voice is one of modernity’s most authentically religious. Beckett, like the author of Ecclesiastes, was a realist. He saw the pathetic, empty monuments we spend a lifetime building to ourselves. He knew, as we read in Ecclesiastes, that nothing is certain or permanent, real or unreal, and that the secret of wisdom is detachment without withdrawal, that, since death awaits us all, all is vanity, that we must give up on the childish notion that one is rewarded for virtue or wisdom. In Ecclesiastes God has put ’olam into man’s mind. ’Olam usually means eternity, but it also means the sense of mystery or obscurity. We do not know what this mystery means. It teases us, as Keats wrote, out of thought. And once we recognize it and face it, simplistic answers no longer work. We are all born lost. Our vain belief in our own powers, in our reason, blinds us. Those who silenced Jesus represented all human societies, not the Romans or the Jews. When Jesus attacks the chief priests, scribes, lawyers, Pharisees, Sadducees and other “blind guides” he is attacking forms of oppression as endemic to Christianity, as to all religions and all ideologies. If civil or religious authority enforces an iron and self-righteous conformity among members of a community, then faith loses its uncertainty, and the element of risk is removed from acts of faith. Faith is then transformed into ideology. Those who deform faith into creeds, who use it as a litmus test for institutional fidelity, root religion in a profane rather than a sacred context. They seek, like all who worship idols, to give the world a unity and coherency it does not possess. They ossify the message. And once ossified it can never reach an existential level, can never rise to ethical freedom—to faith. The more vast the gap between professed faith and acts of faith, the more vast our delusions about our own grandeur and importance, the more intolerant, aggressive and dangerous we become. Faith is not in conflict with reason. Faith does not conflict with scientific truth, unless faith claims to express a scientific truth. Faith can neither be affirmed nor denied by scientific, historical or philosophical truth. Sam confuses the irrational—which he sees as part of faith—with the non-rational. There is a reality that is not a product of rational deduction. It is not accounted for by strict rational discourse. There is a spiritual dimension to human existence and the universe, but this is not irrational—it is non-rational. Faith allows us to transcend what Flaubert said was our “mania for conclusions,” a mania he described as “one of humanity’s most useless and sterile drives.” Reason allows us to worship at the idol of our intrinsic moral superiority. It is a dangerous form of idolatry, a form of faith, certainly, but one the biblical writers knew led to evil and eventually self-immolation. “We are at war with Islam,” Harris writes. “It may not serve our immediate foreign policy objectives for our political leaders to openly acknowledge this fact, but it is unambiguously so. It is not merely that we are at war with an otherwise peaceful religion that has been ‘hijacked’ by extremists. We are at war with precisely the vision of life that is prescribed to all Muslims in the Koran, and further elaborated in the literature of the hadith, which recounts the sayings and teachings of the Prophet” (P. 110). He assures us that “the Koran mandates such hatred” (P. 31 ), that “the problem is with Islam itself” (P. 28). He writes that “Islam, more than any other religion human beings have devised, has all the makings of a thoroughgoing cult of death” (P. 123). Now after studying 600 hours of Arabic, spending seven years of my life in the Middle East, most of that time as the Middle East bureau chief for The New York Times, I do not claim to be a scholar on Islam. But I do know the Koran is emphatic about the rights of other religions to practice their own beliefs and unequivocally condemns attacks on civilians as a violation of Islam. The Koran states that suicide, of any type, is an abomination. More important, the tactic of suicide bombing was pioneered as a weapon of choice by the Tamils, who are chiefly Hindu, in Sri Lanka long before it was adopted by Hezbollah, al-Qaida or Hamas. It is what you do when you do not have artillery or planes or missiles and you want to create maximum terror. Elsewhere: . CommentsAre you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.
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By jIM h., April 28 at 2:06 pm # FIX THIS SITE? YEAR MUST BE ADDED----------------HELLO ROBERT SCHEER; ----------THIS SITE HAS A BUGS IN IT! YOU MUST ADD THE YEAR, AND BRING IT UP TO DATE! --------YEAR SHOULD BE 2008, MONTH APRIL! -------------SITE NOT UP-TO-DATE! --------------FIX IT!-----------NOW IF YOU DO NOT FIX THE DATEE, AND BRING IT UP-TO-DATE, I AM NOT INTERESTED IN COMMENTING FURTHER! AND NO ONE ELSE WILL! DAY, AND YEAR MUST BE INCLUDED!
By Fritzwilliam, April 28 at 10:11 am # It's So SimpleChris Hedges, you do exactly what you criticize others for doing: taking a simple problem and making it complicated. Humans are not inherently evil--they’re inherently stupid. Everything you see and describe in your supposed anthology on the human condition leaves out one overriding (and the only) answer to the question, “Why do humans behave and believe as they do?” and it’s this: The human animal is subintelligent. Furthermore, as to whether or not there is a Darwinian connection, which you deny as the basic thesis of Dawkins and others. . .there is. The connection is the ongoing intellectual evolution of the species known as Homo Sapiens. When the species has developed sufficiently in the gray matter sense, all your talking points will become as dust on the forgotten books on all the forgotten bookshelves of the past.
By Melanie Stephan, September 6, 2007 at 7:16 am # Hi Jim, At times I get mad at the World to, but who are you really mad at? Are you mad at God or at Christians with twisted beliefs? God is not as evil as you make him out to be. Now some of these so called Christians are not going to Heaven either. That is why God has returned to set the record straight. Just google my name and you can find what he had to say in August 2007. If you can’t do that much you can remain ignorant.
By Jim H., August 28, 2007 at 7:50 am # ------------HELLO ROBERT SCHEER; ----------THIS SITE HAS A BUG IN IT! --------------FIX IT!-----------NOW
By Melanie Stephan, August 27, 2007 at 8:41 am # You can read more of what God had to say during the month of Aug. 2007, on this website [url="http://nonprophet.typepad.com/nonprophet/2005/08/are_ you_going_t.html" rel="nofollow"] Non-Prophet, Are you going to Hell? [/url] Melanie also gives PROOF that God
By Jim H., August 16, 2007 at 8:34 am # Re: 95312 samanthastevens Samantha Says: “Could you two please take your bickering off the site and reserve it for people who actually want to discuss the content???” I Say: If you mind your own personal business, and get to some point about what it is you wish to discuss, you are welcome! We who are ‘here’ do not need advice, nor idiotic suggestions from you, or anyone else who is only intent upon being critical, for the sake of being critical! If you do not like what is written, you do not have to read it! Writewhat you want, and read what you want! And we ‘all’ shall continue to do as we did before your arrival! If you do not like this, I suggest you go jump in a lake! Ciao, Jim H.
By Jim H., August 16, 2007 at 8:15 am # Re: 89596 straight_talk_11 You say:“--- why not apply that to consciousness?” (?) And you say: “---I ask if you believe in magic fables---”.(?) So, after demonstrating your childish naivet’e, you revert to your delusionary stance regarding any serious discussion of facts. And after these multiple ‘faux pas’ ‘you’ have the utmost ‘gall’ to suggest that it is ‘I’ who is: “---totally unworthy of any serious debate.” (?) You are NUTS! CRAZY! I say: “conscioness is a ‘human trait’! So, it ‘is’ the result of “EVOLUTION!” NATURALLY! DICTIONARY In your “more complete quote” you talk gibberish fairytales stuff, which is your ‘wont’! And not suprising to us, who ‘know’ the extent of your delusions regarding anything in the ‘real’ world! DON’T YOU KNOW: Isn’t it therefore scornfully ironic that the term “God” has been so twisted by those rotten crooks to supposedly mean something completely opposite? THE BIBLE?
By samanthastevens, August 15, 2007 at 9:33 pm # Could you two please take your bickering off the site and reserve it for people who actually want to discuss the content??? You make it very difficult to navigate through your personal vendettas against each other and read something substantial. Thank you!
By Jim H., July 26, 2007 at 6:28 pm # Re: 89857 I say: You are LYING AGAIN! I have quoted your WORDS EXACTLY! True: I have not shown interest in your attempt to distract with spin, and have only quoted excerpts, but I have ‘highlighted, copied and pasted’ ‘your words’ so, ‘they ‘are’ ‘your’ words! In your “more complete quote” you talk gibberish, fairytales stuff, which is your ‘wont’! And not suprising to us, who ‘know’ the extent of your delusions regarding anything in the ‘real’ world! More reasons to PROVE you are totally incompetent regarding debating, and unable to be serious about anything except an imaginary “God”, and constantly digressing from the subject. And, with your tenacious stance regarding your warped and deluded view of reality you are un-fit to debate an eighth grader about the weather! Get Help!
By Jim H., July 26, 2007 at 7:42 am # Re: 89596 straight_talk_11 You say:“--- why not apply that to consciousness?” And after these multiple ‘faux pas’ ‘you’ have the utmost ‘gall’ to suggest that it is ‘I’ who is: “---totally unworthy of any serious debate.” (?) You are NUTS! I say: “conscioness is a ‘human trait’! So, it ‘is’ the result of “EVOLUTION!” NATURALLY! DICTIONARY In your “more complete quote” you talk gibberish fairytales stuff, which is your ‘wont’! And not suprising to us, who ‘know’ the extent of your delusions regarding anything in the ‘real’ world! Isn’t it therefore scornfully ironic that the term “God” has been so twisted by those rotten crooks to supposedly mean something completely opposite? THE BIBLE?
By Jim H., July 25, 2007 at 6:00 pm # Re: 88974 ‘Then’, you said:“Or, do you believe---it just popped up out of nowhere---.”(?) Regarding your ‘conceptual’ “God”: You ‘talk’ about an IMPOSSIBLE “BEGINNING”? That never happened!
By Jim H., July 22, 2007 at 8:06 pm # Re: 88584 When you say, “I agree with you, and, then disagree, ‘THAT’ IS A LIE! And the rest of that post is gobbledygook garbage! There is no question that you are DELUSIONAL, and that somewhere sometime you were mesmerized, or indoctrinated into believing that asinine notion about some kind “Supreme ‘Being’, which you decided to redesign to better fit your own idea of what a makebelieve farcical “God” should be! And apparently, you are still in the process of ‘perfecting’ your new design! You can’t face “Cold Turkey” renunciation! It seems as though you may be coming to your senses slowly, but you are having a problem facing the fact that for so long, when you thought you were a brilliant example of humanity, you became enslaved to the idea, and enamored by the belief and a mental image of “God”, which you now realize was all a lie and a fantasy, that you should have seen through long ago. So, naturally, it is a shock to your ego, and stirs a slow burning sensation up your spine into your head, to finally accept that you have been a patsy, and a chump!
By Jim H., July 21, 2007 at 2:50 pm # RE:88522 straight_talk_11 You say: “Can’t you see I’m agreeing with you,---"(?) THIS IS A LIE! In your “88415” Post, You said: Quoting me “Mass/energy never disappear And, you said: “No argument."(?) Then, you contradict YOURSELF, AND, ME! When you say: “---You(?) know (?)’matter’ (?)and energy(?) didn’t come from nothing.---"(?) THIS IS AN ABSURD CONTRADICTION! And, ‘THIS’ IS NOT “AGREEING WITH ME!” It’s just Another lie! And you cannot even READ your own writing! For your edification, “matter” is included in the ‘terms’ “Mass/Energy” which has always been extant in the Universe! And I said: “---THERE NEVER, NEVER WAS ‘NOTHING’! Got That? “Mass/Energy Never disappear Ever were Ever here”!
By Jim H., July 20, 2007 at 9:06 pm # 88415 straight_talk_11 Then, you say: “No argument.---- You know matter and energy didn’t come from nothing.” (?) I say “matter and energy ALWAYS WERE! THERE NEVER, NEVER WAS ‘NOTHING’ !!!!!!!!!!!! I say: Now! you cannot even read! Or you cannot comprehend a very edifying and succinct message! The words describe the Universe we live in! They say: “Mass/Energy never disappear! Got That? ALWAYS HERE, NEVER DISAPPEAR! The next line which no doubt you did not read says: (referring to the prior words) “Ever were ever here”. Now, if Mass and/or Energy were ‘ALWAYS’ here, then there NEVER was NOTHING! Idiot! The rest of your ridiculous asinine diatribe that rambles on about other mindless conceptions you dizzy your mind with, are not worth more than this! Please, address your tortuous words, and quests for salvation to your confessor, and leave me out of your thoughts? Mass/energy never disappear THE ORIGIN OF NATURE
By Jim H., July 20, 2007 at 6:05 pm # Re:88354
By Jim H., July 19, 2007 at 6:02 pm # Re: 88063 straight_talk_11 You Say: “---your posts regarding postulates, etc.(re)---science, mathematics,---"(?) I say, ‘you’ are the “postulates” proponent! I, being an inventor, must keep MY postulates secret; until I protect the ‘end product’ by patent! And, I have not discussed mathmatics, here; so, you continnue to spin, away from the subject at hand! I suppose I owe you an apology for believing you are one of those criminal charlatan Evangelical crooks who ravage little kids after convincing them it is the only way they can be granted grace for the “sin” (whatever that means) they were “born’ with”! But, I have never before known of someone who was ‘not’ a “member of Clergy” that spent so much effort, and wrenched out so much perverted diatribe in an effort to support such tenuous assertions about a makebelieve, fairytale symbol of ones insanity. And, after all our ebb, and flow of disagreeing verbiage, I can only wonder who, or what is responsible for doing such a masterful job of ‘inducting’ you into the army of imberciles that the ‘Godist’ religious minions epitomize. You appear so ‘addicted’ to that scheme, that I think of those little Muslim kids that thrill at the opportunity to die in an act of MURDERING non-believers, to prove they know better! Your apparent bewitchment appears so strong that I have no doubt if we were living in earlier times here in the USA, you would try to have me “pilloried” or stoned to death, as a heretic! Such is the depth of your ‘bigotry’, and conviction that a “postulate”, guess, is far better than any established proven fact! A fully sane, reasonable person would totally reject your “God” if for no other reason than that ‘it’ required absolute bigotry, and rejection and repugnance for one’s fellow man, who did not accept this farce! Such a dividing influence is the antithisis of the harmonious uniting indivisibility, our nation is meant to be! Mass/energy never disappear If anything ever was
By Jim H., July 18, 2007 at 5:17 pm # Re:87740 Your nose must be elongating like Pinnochio’s! Check your mirror when you next powder it!
By Jim H., July 17, 2007 at 9:23 pm # Re: 87567 & 87571 You talk about “logic” but you are illogical! You need to have someone read back to you several of your posts so you may come to realize how very illogical your ridiculous persistance in offering postulated guesses as proof of something! Though “postulated” guesses are used to help arrive at what may become a valid conclusion, they of themselves, do not PROVE ANYTHING! And I do not wish to debate the possible validity of an idiot’s “postulated” guesses! Instead of babbling a diatribe about the relativivity of postulates to logical deductions, I don’t need that info, you do! so follow it, to it’s “logical” conclusion, and see if you can come up with anything other than your inane, asinine, farcical conception of a delusion! Haven’t you stolen enough from your flock of innocents, and fools? Why not stop all the lies, and try somehow to ‘atone’ for all the rotteness you have caused those whose lives you have touched, and their At your very next Church meeting, tell your flock that you have discovered the truth; that there is no such thing as a “God”, and that you have been lying just to swindle all the money you could squeeze out of them, so that you could live like a rich person, and enjoy the plelasures that only money can provide. And stop snooping into my personal privacy! Your nose is elongating like Pinnochio’s!
By Jim H., July 16, 2007 at 6:43 pm # Re: 87274 Then you ‘ADMIT’: “Postulates are not provable---."(!) (Your own words!) Stop “postulating”! This is but another audacious lie! I have repeatedly said, or implied, that your “postulate” (claimed) (’Godist’ ) “Creator God” or other conceptual idea of “God” you may have, is an absurd!, makebelieve fairytale tool of charlatans like you, used to enslave innocent children, and fools! Prove otherwise! Where, from whom, or how did you ever come to imagine such a stupid idea? Your problem is that ‘you’ have accepted (without proof) something that neither you, nor anyone else, can prove ever existed, and, based on your HALUCINATORY acceptance of a virtual “pig-in-a-poke” you want others to believe what you absolutely, have no valid reason for believing! If you were the least bit HONEST, and serious, about truth, you would endeavor to find a valid reason for your surrender to such an overpowering addiction, that has caused your outlandish renunciation of sanity in favor of a benumbing, fawning delusionary idolatry that has deprived you of your innate reasoning! WHY do you believe this great lie? Where’s the evidence? How did you first come to believe in this illusory, chimerical conception? Who told you about such a ‘thing’ ? What made you accept that person’s ‘word’ about ‘it’? If after a very thorough research, you came to realize that what you have accepted as true, and believed in for so long, was beyond any doubt whatsoever, totally incompatable with reason, or fact; do you believe you have the mental power to withstand the the hurtful shock to your ego, that admitting to yourself would cause, from knowing you have been a victim, a patsy, and a fool, to have ever believed the lies that caught you so unprepared to deal with it, from the very first? “POSTULATES” do not prove anything, and are totally worthless as PROOF for anything at all! You have said: (Outlandishly!) “---God---"creates(?) from within---"(?) I say: Prove it! What does your delusion of “God” create? Aren’t you sensible enough to realize that what cannot be proven, is not fact, but folly? And that claims are worthless unless supported by facts, PROOF! You say: “Postulates” are not provable."(!) (Your words!) So, why, when you admit ‘they’ are ‘worthless’, do you ask someone: to “show- why, (your) “postulates” are unreasonable or unfounded."(?) (worthlesss!) Not proveable, means: guesswork, speculation, conjecture, infer, suppose, surmize, suggest, imply, hint, intimate, unfounded, without reason, fallacious, containing fundamental errors in reasoning: false, illogical, invalid, sophistic, specious, spurious, deceptive, delusive, ‘delusory’, illusive, illusory, unsound, misleading, assumption, ‘postulate’, without ‘proof’, judgment, estimate, or opinion arrived at by ‘guessing’, and implauseable!
By Jim H., July 16, 2007 at 6:18 pm # Re: 87274 Then you ADMIT: “Postulates are not provable, of course."(!) (Your own words!) This is but another audacious lie! I have repeatedly said, or implied, that your “postulate” (claimed) (’Godist’ ) “Creator God” or other conceptual idea of “God” you may have, is an absurd!, makebelieve fairytale tool of charlatans like you, used to enslave innocent children, and fools! Prove otherwise! Where, from whom, or how did you ever come to imagine such a stupid idea? Your problem is that ‘you’ have accepted (without proof) something that neither you, nor anyone else, can prove ever existed, and, based on your HALUCINATORY acceptance of a virtual “pig-in-a-poke” you want others to believe what you absolutely, have no valid reason for believing! If you were the least bit HONEST, and serious, about truth, you would endeavor to find a valid reason for your surrender to such an overpowering addiction, that has caused your outlandish renunciation of sanity in favor of a benumbing, fawning delusionary idolatry that has deprived you of your innate reasoning! Where’s the evidence? How did you first come to believe in this illusory, chimerical conception? Who told you about such a ‘thing’ ? What made you accept that person’s ‘word’ about ‘it’? If after a very thorough research, you came to realize that what you have accepted as true, and believed in for so long, was beyond any doubt whatsoever, totally incompatable with reason, or fact; do you believe you have the mental power to withstand the the hurtful shock to your ego, that admitting to yourself would cause, from knowing you have been a victim, a patsy, and a fool, to have ever believed the lies that caught you so unprepared to deal with it, from the very first? Aren’t you sensible enough to realize that what cannot be proven, is not fact, but folly? And “POSTULATES” do not prove anything, and are totally worthless as PROOF for anything at all! You have said: (Outlandishly!) “---God---"creates(?) from within---"(?) I say: Prove it! What does your delusion of “God” create? I say: Why don’t you attempt to prove the validity of your assertions? Where’s the evidence? How did you first come to believe in this apparently illusory, chimerical conception? Who told you about such a ‘thing’ ? What made you accept that person’s ‘word’ about ‘it’? If after a very thorough research, you came to realize that what you have accepted as true and believed in for so long, was beyond any doubt whatsoever, totally incompatable with reason, or fact, do you believe you have the mental power to withstand the the hurtful shock to your ego, that admitting to yourself would cause that you have been a victim, a patsy, and a fool to have ever believed the lies that caught you so unprepared to deal with it from the very first? Aren’t you sensible enough to realize that claims are worthless unless supported by facts, PROOF! You say: “Postulates” are not provable."(!) (Your words!)
By Jim H., July 15, 2007 at 3:01 pm # Re: 87091& 87095 straight_talk_11 You say: “---’MORE’ (?) compelling reasons---?” “---they’re already here.” “---I have (offered) compelling reasons---” (?) I say: LIAR! You have not cited even ONE! Liar! I Say: You are a ‘disgusting’ LIAR! You have not offered even ONE REASON! for any one to accept your so called, absurd “POSTULATES”! A “postulate” is a CLAIM! It is ‘NOT’ a REASON! DICTIONARY: postulate I say:That statement (think) says it all! IT PROVES YOU ARE A LIAR! Even a dope like you should know that “think” there is a reason, is NOT stating a REASON! And it shows that you have not provided even one (1) “REASON”! Not even one (1) reason in all of your critically bigoted babbling attempt to “prove” the un -proveable! Not one (1) reason to support your ceaseless lies! How can you lie so much, and so often, and then keep teling lie after lie in an attempt to support all the rest of your repeated lies, without knowing what you are doing? You say:"---(No) readers--- have---critiqued --- my postulates (claims)---? This is but another audacious lie! I have repeatedly said, or implied, that your “postulate” (claimed) (’Godist’ ) “Creator God” or other conceptual idea of “God” you may have, is an absurd!, makebelieve fairytale tool of charlatans like you, used to enslave innocent children, and fools ! Prove otherwise! Where, from whom, or how did you ever come to imagine such a stupid idea?
By Jim H., July 13, 2007 at 9:04 pm # Re:86700 Rev. nahida Thanks for reading my posts, and your (free) critique. Don’t mess up your ‘Alb’ with sputtering spittle. You say: “received---unfounded(?) accusations of irrationality, insanity and believing in fairy tale stories;---"(?) I say: You must be a drug addict! No one in their right mind would lie so OUTRAGEOUSLY! I say: “Accusations” of irrationality, insanity, and believing in fairy tale stories---"are extremely ACCURATE! when discussing someones ‘belief’, or ‘faith’ in something totally falsle, absolutely impossible to prove, a figment of a charlatan’s evil criminal mind, and the delusional symbol that induces people like you to be the asinine blowhard verbose bigot you are. If you wish someone to believe in your ‘Godish’ fetish, all you need do is present some ‘proof’ that such a ‘thing’ ‘IS’ REAL!, and not a makebelieve, fairytales, device, used to lure innocents, and imbeciles ‘like you’ into a form of slavery to an irrational conception of life, and a world of mindless delusion that causes the type of bigoted agressive attacking misstatements, and a ‘pedantic’ attermpt to demean, belittle, and insult the intelligence of someone who is by far, light years, your mental superior! YOU ARE TOTALLY CONFUSED! ‘YOU’ ‘IDIOTS’ ARE THE BELIEVERS! We, The rational ones! who accuse ‘you’ criminal idiots of lying and chicancery, and warping innocent children’s minds with your schemes are the NON-BELIEVERS! Sane, rational, people do not ask, nor expect others to PROVE the non -existance of “santa Clause’. the “Tooth Fairy” “Mickey Mouse” or other makebelieve, fairytales entities such as a “Creator-God” and “little Orphan Annie”! Sane, rational people KNOW these are comic, or farcical conceptions, and do not, nor have they ever existed except in the minds of storybook writers! Or, in the case of the “Creator-God”, in the ‘heads’ of all you, the DELUDED ‘MINDLESS’! Don’t demand others to prove you are a liar! The proof is in your absurd twisted assertions! You talk about “logic”! Isn’t it logical to you that what does not exist does not need to be proven not to exist? Your problem is that ‘you’ have accepted (without proof) something that neither you, nor anyone else, can prove ever existed, and, based on your acceptance of a virtual “pig-in-a-poke” you want others to believe what you have absolutely no valid reason for believing! If you were the least bit HONEST, and serious, about truth, you would endeavor to find a valid reason for your surrender to such an overpowering addiction, that has caused your outlandish renunciation of sanity in favor of a benumbing, fawning idolatry that has deprived you of you innate reasoning! I say: Why don’t you attempt to prove (or, disprove) the validity of your assertions? WHY do you believe this great lie? Where’s the evidence? How did you first come to believe in this illusory, chimerical conception? Who told you about such a ‘thing’ ? What made you accept that person’s ‘word’ about ‘it’? If after a very thorough research, you came to realize that what you have accepted as true, and believed in for so long, was beyond any doubt whatsoever, totally incompatable with reason, or fact; do you believe you have the mental power to withstand the the hurtful shock to your ego, that admitting to yourself would cause, from knowing you have been a victim, a patsy, and a fool, to have ever believed the lies that caught you so unprepared to deal with it, from the very first? Aren’t you sensible enough to realize that what cannot be proven, is not fact, but folly?
By DSA, July 13, 2007 at 4:01 pm # Happy Friday to All! Why can’t our dear, great world leaders spend the abundant resources we are gifted with toward the welfare of all mankind… instead of on these destructive wars? The turmoil you see and hear in Afghanistan and present day Pakistan was not seen or heard of during one era in their history… and that was when the Buddhist leaders ran those countries… Their only secret was the belief in nonviolence and respect for all life. Why are the present day Devout/Faithful so angry, confused and destructive? Wishing everyone a fun weekend, With love, DSA |
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