Now, at least two people have checked out my blog: one's an Agnostic and the other's a devout Catholic. Well, good enough, I suppose.
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Do you want to do something this Holy Week so your faith will deepen? Look no more and see what's in this blog. Now, what's here, you can mostly classify as blasphemy, and I think that condemning is a gift. (On one side, Christians blurt out: "Go to hell!", on the other Christ said: "Let he who has no sin cast the first stone.") After all, they called Galileo a blasphemer when he said that the earth revolved around the sun, after all some verse in Joshua said that a prophet commanded the sun to stop moving.* Well, he had reason, but you good Christians all know that truth is in blind, blind, blind faith.^ Right?
Now get your blindfolds out and debunk this instead of going to your holidays. Asses.
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him?
If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future?
If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers?
If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him?
If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?
If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them?
If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him?
If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable?
If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees?
If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him?
If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced?
If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?
Now
Do you want to do something this Holy Week so your faith will deepen? Look no more and see what's in this blog. Now, what's here, you can mostly classify as blasphemy, and I think that condemning is a gift. (On one side, Christians blurt out: "Go to hell!", on the other Christ said: "Let he who has no sin cast the first stone.") After all, they called Galileo a blasphemer when he said that the earth revolved around the sun, after all some verse in Joshua said that a prophet commanded the sun to stop moving.* Well, he had reason, but you good Christians all know that truth is in blind, blind, blind faith.^ Right?
Now get your blindfolds out and debunk this instead of going to your holidays. Asses.
If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him?
If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future?
If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers?
If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him?
If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?
If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them?
If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him?
If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable?
If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees?
If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him?
If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced?
If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?
Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Necessity of Atheism
On Galileo and the apparent
Humans are inclined to what is apparent. We want wealth because it's easy to notice the Rolex, the Gucci handbag, the Prada shirt or the BMW. We want looks because it's hard to find out if somebody is insightful. We didn't believe in Galileo because apparently the sun moved and the earth stood still. We don't care much about global warming because it's not that apparent--it isn't as threatening as a terrorist attack.
And how we lose ourselves to all these masks.
* Got that from the Colbert Report. Edit as of April 9: Today the Jews celebrate the returning of the sun to the position where it was created. In other words, Jews believe (or are supposed to believe) that the sun is the one moving. (Side note: Got that from the Colbert Report too.)
^ 4-9-09 Edit: I remember a poem my Fil prof Yol Jamendang (akosiyol.blogspot.com) read out:
"God is love.
Love is blind."
Do the logic, people.
And how we lose ourselves to all these masks.
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* Got that from the Colbert Report. Edit as of April 9: Today the Jews celebrate the returning of the sun to the position where it was created. In other words, Jews believe (or are supposed to believe) that the sun is the one moving. (Side note: Got that from the Colbert Report too.)
^ 4-9-09 Edit: I remember a poem my Fil prof Yol Jamendang (akosiyol.blogspot.com) read out:
"God is love.
Love is blind."
Do the logic, people.
"Now get your blindfolds out and debunk this instead of going to your holidays. Asses."
ReplyDelete~I don't know why many people would go out and have fun when it's Holy Week... Must be because of the 1 week vacation. :|
like i said vic...i always believe that our faith was one founded on personal experience. you believe in your own. you interpret as you can. experience what it is to be a believer and not take without thought what anybody, clergy or not would say. that is the only effective way that we may be drawn to believe and follow. no one can help you or make you believe.
ReplyDeleteyou need to find God on your own.
and in finding, you would have already found Him.