Again, another example of how much you don't understand what you are attacking.
God allows sin so we as free-will individuals can deal with it and be judged. You're silly, childish claim that since sin exists that it's some sort of lack of Gods control is entertaining if it weren't tragic, given how chesty and egotistical you are.
Okay, here's the problem with that. Actually, several. The first one is that it makes God come off like a Batman Villain. You know, like in
The Dark Knight, where the Joker fills two boats with explosives and a trigger to blow up the other boat. And the people have to make a decision whether or not to blow up the boat before they get blown up. Let's put situations in your way, and then see if you make a mistake, and whoops, if you make the wrong choice, you are going to burn for all eternity.
Secondly, God doesn't give everyone the same choices, does he. I mean, I've never stolen anything, but I've also never gone to bed hungry. But if someone steals instead of dutifully starving to death, God is going to condemn him.
Sorry, what did these kids do wrong again that your God needs to punish them?
I could also talk about the truly messed up concept of confession and forgiveness. But I'll hold off for now.
You claim to be a big deal, but when you type you prove time and time again you know nothing of what you attack. Those in the faith you clearly hate will continue to pray for you, that even if you continue to HATE them, that your soul will be saved. Human souls have value. I don't hope you find salvation for my benefit, you're a sinner like me. We both have future planning and larger issues to address. Do you think I'm on here saying these things thinking I have an auto-ticket to heaven? I await God's judgement just like everyone. Do I deserve heaven? absolutely not. I have committed horrible sins myself, such as premarital sex, lying, deceiving, etc. I am repentent for those and have owned them in confession.
Okay, let's look at that. First, I went to Catholic Schools for 12 years. It wasn't the parts of Catholicism that I didn't understand that bothered me, it was the parts I understand perfectly well.
Secondly, the concept of salvation and confession - you know, more groveling in front of the Imaginary Sky Man, because he loves him some groveling - is kind of whack, yo! By Christian Logic, Ann Frank is burning in hell because she never asked forgiveness and didn't think Jesus Did Magic Tricks, but Jeffrey Dahmner confessed and accepted Jesus into his soul and gets to sit on a cloud. I hope he doesn't run into anyone he ate up there because, man, that would be awkward.
You seem to have a lot of built up resistance, probably due to Christian keyboard warriors. I don't blame you. I see many Christian people online who show no mercy, no compassion, and damn everyone who isn't them. Is that Christianity? No, that's just online culture, as you probably know. Just realize, the amount of people you run into online is of the smallest margin of people, the most outspoken, brash, ego-driven people who seek conflict. If you judge based on this sample, you'll get a distorted reality, and I can understand why you'd be so jaded.
Actually, most of my hostility towards religion has to do with 12 years of dealing with a clergy I kind of realized was full of beans at an early age. I remember when Sr. Mary Butch (By the way, all nuns who taught me are Sister Mary Butch, just to save time) was shrieking about Noah's Ark, and little Joey, being the sensitive kind of kid I was back then, asked, "Why did God Drown the Babies?" and Sr. Butch screamed back, "THEY WERE WICKED BABIES! WIIIIICKED!!!" (By the way, everything was wicked to this old hag.) Another time, they gave us our own little copies of the New Testament, and one of the first things I noticed was that Jesus's genealogies were different in Matthew and Luke, and they both traced through Joseph, who wasn't his father. Pointing this out got me a whack from the ruler. I got lots of whacks from the ruler.
But the real corker was my mom's funeral in 1983. My mom died of cancer after a year of suffering, right after we lost my dad to cancer. (By the way, a God who allows Cancer to exist is not worthy of anyone's worship, but we have CHILDREN with cancer, which is even more messed up.) And this old, frustrated lesbian, who knew my mom because they worked together, said, "God had to have a good reason for this." She's lucky I didn't punch her.
I'm not here to get a one-up on you. I'm not here to better you. I'm here to just here to say what is true about what you think you attack, and the word "true" as in meaning definition. A cow isn't a tree. If you call a cow a tree, someone needs to correct that. It doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with the cow or tree, but the cow isn't the tree. That's the point.
No, guy, that's not a point. A cow doesn't call itself a cow. It doesn't think of itself as a cow. It doesn't think all that much about it's own existence and really doesn't spend much time worrying about it's afterlife.
A transwoman thinks of herself as a woman. She lives her life as a woman. and you know what, at the end of the day, she's not hurting anyone.
