(The) biggest fallacies about God are:
- God needs something.
- God can fail to get what God needs.
- God has separated you from God because you have not given God what God needs.
- God still needs what God needs so badly that God now requires you, from your separated position, to provide it.
- God will destroy you if you do not meet God's requirements.
These fallacies about God are destructive enough, but they completely overwhelm humanity when combined with the fallacies about Life to which they have given birth. Many human beings--most, actually--believe that:
- Human beings are separate from each other.
- There is not enough of what human beings need to be happy.
- To get the stuff of which there is not enough, human beings must compete with each other.
- Some human beings are better than other human beings.
- It is appropriate for human beings to resolve severe differences created by all the other fallacies by killing each other.
- Humanity's major fallacies about God and about Life make for a deadly litany of error that has created, and continues to create to this very moment, a world of deep anger, brutal violence, terrible loss, unrelenting sorrow, and unremitting terror.
- You think you are being terrorized by other people, but in truth you are being terrorized by your own beliefs.
~from Tomorrow's God by Neale Donald Walsch
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Best thing I've read all day. I'm so happy you posted it.
What a wonderful thing to read this morning! Thanks!
I have a very personal relationship with God.
I know God understands that I ,as a frail human ,also have some hurts about some "injustices", some unanswered prayers.etc.
As part of that intimate relationship, I also have "forgiven" my GOD.
And I now put my complete trust on HIM.
THY will be done.
Hi Scott:
When you have time visit my blog"Thankfulness to ALL"http://thankfulnesstoall.blogspot.com/
God bless!
Thanks.
profound thinking...already i have some difficulty believing in God, so i often wonder about the beliefs people have about God.
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I enjoyed reading this post.
Own beliefs? INteresting....
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I disagree the part about people being terrorised by their own belief. Although I guess it's partly right, more like people having problems accepting other because their views is different from each other and can't conform to them. Regardless of religion, gender and sexuality. Jesus told everyone to be idealists. Think for ourselves instead of being lead blindly. The blind leads the blind. I have a paganistic view about God and see the same God but in different forms. In all every religion is the same on a fundamental level.
We are all the same race and like birds and other animals some evolved different.
You put some interesting issues there, what I don't understand what real reason for a human to hurt or kill another. Read the children's book BFG and find out more.
It is always amazing to me to see how strong the mind can be. Destruction vs Harmony. It gets in the way of our soul being fed.
Hope your day is going well.
'God will destroy you if you do not meet God's requirements.'
This is a very hurtful view that unfortunatly some people have. I lost my daughter almost 5 yrs ago (still birth) and while I was in the hospital my botfriend's mother actually told me that God took my baby because my boyfriend didn't believe in him. I was, and still am, appauled that people really think that God would be heartless like that. I'm glad that you posted these as falacies, and very glad that I read it. Thanks! :)
Another fallacy about god is that one exists!
Thank you for your beautiful post. Have a wonderful time.
I enjoyed your posting, your thoughts, your art,and the journey you are on.
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If you believe in attitude of gratitude, whom do you thank to everyday? just a general question.
Strangers to Gratitude: A Tale of Ten Lepers
"Ten were cleansed, were they not? Where are the other nine?
Has none but this foreigner returned to give thanks to God?"
Hey Scott- wow this was powerful. Hope you are having a good Tuesday!
I am grateful for you... do you know that? I am
God made man, man made God
Thank you for your post! I am a visitor and stumbled upon your blog. I am interested in the last two posts you wrote, because you mention being in recovery and God.
Concerning Recovery, I understand 12 step programs of recovery, think they are great, and understand their use of a Higher Power. It is difficult for some, who do not believe in a Higher Power, to come to a belief that a "power higher than ourselves could restore us to sanity," etc.
I am a Christian who attempts to be so intelligently. As such, I do not encourage people in recovery to "fake it till they make it," because if there truly is no God, belief in one would not help one recover, right? It seems unfaire for someone who has made an intelligent decision that there is no God to have to believe in one in order to find recovery.
I am curious how you handle this. I've heard some call the group conscious their higher power, and for a true athiest or agnostic, I think this is a fairly decent option.
Concerning God, a main error I find often, which I also found in your last post, was the idea that something cannot be true if it sounds absurd. The grounds for believing a thing should not be based on how the beliefe "sounds," nor should they be based on whether or not we agree with them.
As an example, all people grow old and die. I don't like this fact. Actually, I'm offended by it. But that doesn't make it any less true. We have to have different ways of verifying the truthfulness of claims than by how they sound.
If God made us all as puppets, controlled our every move, and condemned us all to an eternity of hell based on actions we could not control, as absurd as that would sound, if it WERE true, it wouldn't matter how it sounded. Does that make sense?
That's all. My goal here wasn't to prove anything, but to encourage clear thinking.
Godd morning to ALL!
"Who does not thank for little will not thank for much."
http://thankfulnesstoall.blogspot.com/
AMEN !!!!!!!!!
yes but does that not make it god's fault, as if he or she did not exist these mix-ups wouldn't either?? (ok, so maybe then we wouldn't exist either, so that would solve the whole problem anyway, or perhaps he/she shouldn't have let on about his/her existence at all, eh? - moronic, I know), but I don't believe in a blame culture - the answer is to work together to find solutions not scapegoats. But if we are bothered about killing people and suffering, why are we slaughtering thousands of animals everyday just for a bit of food - when they are much more helpless than humans (mostly).
That's pretty deep. Thanks.
nice one..
Being someone sober for 41/2 yrs I have plenty of gratitude
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