Hello all. I have many grand religious followers who come to this blog. I do respect what they comment but when it comes to the supernatural, the bible specifically, and all fables and myths I prefer reality. I am sadly not able to accept things that can not be shown to exist with all the science available to us at this time. I once had a really nice but “dumb” woman I do like, say to me she knew her god existed. When I demanded proof she said she felt him. I then demanded to know where her god was when as a child I was being raped, she had no answer, yet still kept existing her god not only was real but was constantly in her life. She could feel him. I gave up. She couldn’t even set aside her Catholic faith long enough to feel sympathy for a raped child. That told me why so many people stay with the religion that has the highest child abuse statistics. Just before I left her home she touched my arm, told me she would talk to her priest, and asked me to come to her church with her that she went to four times a week. If I did I would see her god was real, alive, and wanting to be part of my life. She had just set aside what I had told her, that her god had ignored I was being raped as a child. She couldn’t reconcile it with her faith so she just lost it, shut it out, ignored it and instead still pushed for her deity.
On every blog I read dealing with a case of a religious figure of any faith abusing a child, the question comes up “How can anyone still support that religion, how can they give them more money”? As I found out it is simple. They simply deny or refuse to deal with facts. This was a woman I have known for 15 years, helped out repeatedly, even gave her a printer when she did not have one. I later found out she was using it to print the church bulletins for the services, but I did not care. I gave it to her because she claimed to need one and couldn’t afford it. Yet where was her wealthy church in giving her a printer to do their work for them? Yet it was up to me, an atheist child abuse survivor that gave her the means to do a service for her wealthy church.
Anyway enjoy the video. Again this is not an attack on those that have a spiritual code or belief that leads them through their daily life, this is to refute those that claim the bible is the literal word of an all knowing god and never wrong. Hugs
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“They know it’s not true but they’re going to believe it anyway”
Well, there you go. Is it any wonder that so many of the followers of the monstrous liar Trump are people who have throughout their lives been trained by their religion to think exactly this way? People believe lies not because the lies are plausible, but because it suits their interest to do so. The result of this fact is that it is easier to lie to yourself than anyone else, because nobody has as much interest in believing your lies as you do. Particularly, Evangelical Christians have been trained to instantly avert their eyes from anything that they do not want to believe. Republicans have understood this for a century; it is their exploitation of this fact that has led a party representing a small minority of voters to end up in charge time after time.
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Hello Carl. You are correct. It is the same with many things. I don’t believe in the supernatural, but I know people who are Wicca. These people convinced themselves or all sorts of things. I once sat with a few of them and used my fingers to change the flame directions, make the flames bend. They all claimed it was magic, the power with in me. I knew I was changing the air flow. I could have told them but really what good would it do? They would have argued or just chocked it up to me not understanding enough. Hugs
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