I posted this video by Tim Minchin called Thank You God to my FaceBook wall because I love it and he really nails it. It starts out with Tim saying that people come to his shows expecting him to mock God, but he isn't going to do that anymore because someone came to him with proof of a miracle from god and then he sings this song about the miracle called Thank You God, which is of course a total mockery where he completely nails it.
Someone that I believe is a believer in god "liked" the post. I had to respond, which I am reposting here (with a bit of editing . Minus the persons name as it could have been a great many people and the reply applies to a great many people. Really?, I am very surprised that you liked this post. I thought you where a believer. Am I wrong about that or did you actually listen to it? OR did you just see that it was titled “Thank You God” and like that? No offense but the first thing I thought of when I saw that is of good, kind, decent people who say they like/believe the Bible. They like the highlights, the nice words, sure. I did too. For most of my life. I think most decent Christians read the Bible like most people read terms of agreements online, they scan them, or don't read it at all. Or they read it with blinders on, only seeing the good stuff about love, they have to. But if good people would take their rose colored religious glasses off and really read the Bible, the whole thing. Really deeply think about what it says, that there is a god who created us, knowing full well that any, some, many, or most would not believe in him and that because of that not just one, but some, no many, well actually most of his children that he “loves” so much would be tortured in Hell for all eternity, I believe EVERY good, kind, decent person would reject it. We "lowly, horrible, fallen, sinful" humans let the worst criminals off FAR easier than that for the worst possible crimes, things that are certainly FAR FAR WORSE than not believing someone who says "I love you so much that you better believe in me or I'll burn and torture you forever". When the reality of that core message finally sunk in after most of my life as a Christian I knew I could not possibly love such a God EVEN IF he was real. EVEN if it meant I myself would GO TO HELL, I knew I could not LOVE such a god. You seem like a really nice person to me, please let the reality of the bible message sink in. One new tool I recommend that should challenge believers to the core is a video called Burn Victims. It is very hard to watch, stomach churning, IT SHOULD BE, people who believe in god need to ask what kind of God am I serving? Thankfully as our understanding of life and the universe grow it really makes much more sense without any god. I don't mean to offend and I am working on how to best process things myself but it hurts to see people I like, good decent people, some of whom I have known personally for many years, not just through Facebook like I do you, believe and justify loving the Biblical concept of god, which to me is utterly vile. I am very still much processing how to deal with friends who believe in this god as this reply states. I understand many reasons why people believe, I did myself for most of my life. I also understand first hand how difficult it is to face the fact that something I had been taught from childhood was about love, is actually about fear, control, power, and hate. It was hard to face that the only reason I had still been believing for years was not because God's love is so compelling, but because I feared burning in Hell if I didn't believe and love this god. That's a TOUGH road to travel. Although the result is that I am much, MUCH happier and at peace with, accepting of myself and the world than I was as a Christian. Generally if people are content in their personal beliefs I don't want to just come out and offend or confront them. If they are not telling others how they MUST believe or live their lives, I am basically just letting it go. Even though I believe the world would be much better off with more thinking and less believing. And even though it really does hurt to see good, caring, decent, people that I care about believe something that is now so clearly VILE and hateful to me.
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