lothartx Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 I thought I'd share this with group. I found it while "Stumbling"... It's by Adrian Barnett Dear GodI don't believe in you, You might be surprised to know. Does that shock you? Probably not. I am asked told ordered commanded to accept you, love you and devote my life to you. But this is a thing that I cannot do. You see... You just don't make sense. Belief in you inspires men and women to create great works of art to compose wonderful, uplifting music perform acts of selfless charity and goodness to travel to the darkest corners of the world spreading their good news. Belief in you also causes great pain the destruction of entire nations the killing of innocents the suppression of thought and word. Religion becomes a prison, both for believers and unbelievers. Religion explains everything, and in doing so it explains less than nothing. I am asked, told, ordered, commanded to accept that you know everything, but not some things you love us all, but send us to hell you are all-powerful, but cannot help us you hear our prayers, but will not act on them. you watch us suffer, but do nothing. Innocents die, for a mysterious greater good. Everything we are told about you Fits the description of something that does not cannot should not exist. Your attributes cancel each other out of existence. People shout Thou Shalt Not Kill as they slaughter and burn in your name. People scream Thou Shalt Not Steal as they plunder and pillage, until your temples creak under the weight of gold. People cry Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness as they deceive to convert, and silence the voice of science. They say God Is Love and tell us that our love is wrong and list those that God hates. Preaching tolerance they tolerate only those who conform. Christians tell us that You died on the cross to wash away our sins, and the seas filled with blood as your followers gouged and slashed their way to heaven. If Christ was a man, and no more, this makes a strange sort of sense. But if he was a god, it makes a mockery of reason. If I could believe in a God, I would be ashamed to be associated with any earthly religion. Faith asks me to accept the nonsensical the incoherent the twisted logic the hatred of difference the demonstrably false the inhuman the unacceptable. My mind tries to make it all fit mesh coalesce. The jigsaw pieces are all the wrong shapes. The whole is less than the sum of its parts. The rationalisations are too weak to form foundations. My destiny is mine to control. I can feel the Earth moving. My genes are older than stars. The world does make sense. Every moment of life is full of joy and wonder. And because of this I know that there is no god. My mind is free. My soul is my own. I am an atheist. I am human. Not my work, but I wish it was.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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