spring1 wrote: What's irritating about you is that you continually have to try and force your beliefs on those around you.
Really now? All posters who I held a gun to their head and "forced" my beliefs on please stand up.
Ironically, I would give anything to believe...to have faith in empty answers. Unfortunately, everything I see, hear, and touch tells me that we are alone--and that's ok.
I doubt it. If you would "give anything to believe", why haven't you? You don't have to take my word for it. Or Truman's or anybody else's. You can seek the answers on your own. So why haven't you? You're not gonna get a cell phone call from 555-1234 (like in Bruce Almighty).
The presentable facts only enforce my belief that religion is a crutch for weak-minded people who need something, anything to explain away their own ignorance and cope with their fear of the unknown.
This argument is older than dirt. Now lets be realistic for a moment. If I didn't believe in God and didn't want to please Him I'd probably drink, party alot, do whatever I wanted that pleases myself! So why would anyone choose this "crutch" over self-gradification? The answer is simple, He is a crutch. But a crutch that everyone needs. Because without Him we are lost. "Weak-minded"? Hardly.
From what I have read and religiously speaking, you are a brain-washed zealot. More power to you. Is it possible to keep some of your thoughts to yourself? Must you post something about the conveniently omniscient "God" with every post you type?
I am anything but "brainwashed". I have walked out of churches because their teachings are not consistent with the Bible. I will not fall victim to some cult because I make sure anything people tell me is consistent with scripture.
Your problem is not with me, but with He who is in me. And I accept that.