Going to Church on Sunday
is a bad idea because:
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You are
going to hear an old book preached as the word of God while clearer and more
profound books are downgraded as less valuable to humankind. They are the ones that believers would want
to be burned if there was a choice between them and say the Bible.
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Caring
about what God wants is unnecessary. He
has the power to do whatever he wants, he is perfectly happy. Put humanity first. Religion says God is goodness itself
therefore God comes first. They will
add that loving God means serving humanity.
But it means serving humanity because he wants it so what he wants is
what matters not the people. Remember, don’t love God to be on the safe side
because then which god and which interpretation of his plan and will should it
be? Why not put humanity first for that
would be safer for you can see and hear the people around you while you can’t
be as sure there is a God? You can’t
believe in every religion that says bad things will result if you don’t believe
in it.
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The
Church is more interested in getting you to agree with its beliefs than in
getting you to be good. It is beliefs
like Jesus being the Son of God that the Church exists for, for you don’t need
a Church to preach good and encourage it therefore it is nothing but a
glorified bigot club that wants to use you.
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For human
beings to take comfort in a being without any needs and who is perfectly happy
is very abnormal though common. You
might as well take comfort in the thought of electricity. You will be going to Church to pray and sing
hymns to God. How could you joyfully
praise a God who does not need your praise and who is already perfectly happy
for he is all-powerful and all-good?
That is abnormal behaviour. If
your requests influence him then he is not perfect for a perfect being needs no
influence. If they do not influence him
then they are a waste of time and they do you no good so prayer indicates that
what God wants matters and to hell with your wants. Any comfort gained from prayer is identical to the comfort that a
slave gets from being a slave. Its bad
comfort.
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To spend
time with God instead of human beings even for a while is a terrible
thing. God is just a concept or a
belief for you cannot see or hear or touch him and so he is not the same as a
person and no two perceptions of God are alike and there are different
interpretations of God one supported just as passionately as the next. If you feel you have a relationship with him
it is just your imagination for children feel the care of Santa Claus and so
you are equalising human relations with a relationship to a concept and your
imagination. To say it is not
imagination is to say you can prove God’s existence which is forbidden for God
religion asks for faith in God which would be impossible if you knew he existed
for then it would not be faith but knowledge.
To call imagination knowledge would be deadly example to set. If you have to spend time with somebody find
a human being to do it with for then you are sure you can make somebody that
needs it happy. To say that God’s law
comes first is to say that belief in God comes before people.
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To say
you love God is a tremendously two-faced boast and so there is no point in
looking like a fool by going to Church.
God is supposed to be love right?
Face it: you do not care about what happens to people you don’t know,
that’s nearly all the world population, like you care about yourself. How can God touch you so that you love him
when your heart is largely closed to love for you have to love love to love
God? You don’t want to care so you
don’t really love God at all so don’t say you can’t help it for that is not the
point. You just love what you can get
out of him. It is about your terms and
not his.
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Prayer is
fanatical and malevolent. All earthly
events are intertwined. To ask for the
gift of say, patience, or for a bike is to ask God to kill people and give them
cancer in the process of delivering your request for all events are
connected. For example, if your grandfather
had not been at the fair at the exact time he met your grandmother the whole of
history after that for the whole world would have been different. It’s a domino effect. You have no right to try and kill people by
your prayers and God has no right to ask you to trust him to do the right
thing. That people suffer is more
certain than that God can be trusted for the senses can verify their
suffering. This is human life we are
talking about and it is okay for him for nobody can harm him. If you think prayer works you don’t know
how. It could be psychic power and you
could be causing the evil that gets you what you ask for in prayer. Yet religion says that even if we believe in
the supernatural that it won’t harm us we should not be dabbling in it for it
is dabbling in what we do not understand.
We should not be taking risks like that with human life and a really
good God would care more for our good deeds than us communicating with him and
so he would not need prayers.
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The
longer we live and the more we have the more we sin so to ask God for anything
means we are asking for more freedom and comfort to sin. If it were not for asking to be a happier
person, nobody would be interested in God at all. How religious people are deceived by the clergy. To say to God, “Thy will be done”, is evil
because it is saying that God should let people suffer if he wishes. Would you say that to a dictator you don’t
know well enough? You are vile if you
do and you’d need to know him inside out to justify that.
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You don’t
need a God. Even if you know nobody is
looking after you up there you can still be happy if you believe in a life
after death. This looking after is not
much of a comfort for bad things still happen and developing self-esteem is the
only way to accept the trials of life so you don’t need God. Believing in survival of death can give you
strength and courage here below. And
believing in punishment after death is useless and vindictive wishful thinking
for all unpleasant beliefs that are unnecessary are just nasty for you can have
nicer beliefs. We should do good not
because we fear punishment but because we want to so we don’t need threatening
beliefs and they arise from spite. We
should do good because it is its own reward in that it is a fun challenge and
not for a pie in the sky. To say that
we might get rewards and punishments but should not be motivated because of
them is to remove the whole point of needing God.
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The
Church holds that the main commandment in the Bible as taught by God through
Moses and Jesus is to love God with all your heart and soul and mind. That means you love other things not for
themselves but for him so it is really just loving him. Christian love then deceives you that it
cares for you. The commandment
obviously commands you to believe in God but it should not matter what you
believe as long as you are a good person and mean well. Fire will burn even if you sincerely believe
it won’t but that does not mean you deserve to be burnt so wrong beliefs should
not exclude you from salvation. To say
you love God is the most outrageous piece of hypocrisy and self-inflicted
blindness and bigotry out there and amounts just to the exploitation of those
who faith has been induced in. To love
God a bit is dangerous unless you are trying really hard to love him more so
that you can get to the stage where you love him alone. Being happy with your level of love for God
means you don’t love him at all for the love is an insult.
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Loving
your neighbour not as yourself but more is dangerous. It’s letting them have all the benefits that you should
have. It is denying your equality with
them and if you shouldn’t have those benefits why should they? But the rule to love God alone or more than
yourself is worse. It means you would
renounce pleasure and happiness and your own existence to be right with a God
who doesn’t need your sacrifices. The
underlying attitude that your rights don’t count in themselves is still there
whether you believe in loving the neighbour most or God. Though God religion will not take all your
rights from you it still does not really respect them in its attitude and
therefore endangers them. If it is
right to believe in disrespecting these rights then it is right to limit them
as well and we can’t complain if new religions arise and persecute those they
do not like.
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Muslims
have their Sabbath on a Friday, Jews and many Christians on a Saturday and
Christians on a Sunday. The law should
not be sanctioning the Sabbath day for Christians by having buses off the road
and shops closed on Sundays. It gives
Christians special rights and privileges which is terrible in a pluralist
society. Let Sunday be treated as any
other day for what is known to be real should be what is influencing the law
not the speculations of religious faith.
We have to be empiricists, that is people who work out what to do from
what they observe in this world rather than worrying about rules from another
world. The belief that God comes first
denies this so it is an intrinsically treasonous and dangerous and intolerant
concept. Going to Church supports the
Church’s exploitation of the law for it makes the Church look more influential.
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After
reading all this, I’m sure you will agree that giving the Church money to
spread its message and continue to worship God is a very bad idea too! The clerical system has no excuse for
looking for money because if it can’t see itself for the den of thieves that it
is then it is because it does not want to see – which means it knows what it
is!
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