Why do people hate God so much? Are they blind?

littlek,

I understand where you are coming from. But, I think it is important to realize that anyone that would fly airplanes into a building to kill innocent people is not doing it for God. They are doing it for their own motives.

God does not demand that we go out and kill for him. Once Christ came the old ways feel away.

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Did you sleep through the atheistic Communist bloodbaths of the 20th century?

Real life-Are sociopathic atheistic societies proof that a theist society is, by definition, a kinder, gentler, one? There are rotten apples that abound in the entire spectrum of belief. The problem is, that religions have a long history of blood, guts and mayhem in the NAME of their God.

(BTW, did YOU sleep through hIstory class when they taught about the Crusades, or the Inquisition?)

Let's discuss flocks...

I always had a problem being a follower. Flocks remind me of sheep, sheep remind me of followers, followers remind me of blind trust which scares the hell out of me. Particularly when the blind trust is being spoken by a human who claims to have a direct line to God's intent.

MA, I'm not trying to pick on you here, but when you called yourself one of the Flock, my radar alarms started screaming. It's the concept of flock that bothers me about organized religion, or at least that's one on the things that trouble me.

Anyone else?

Those people who do bad things are thinking, in their mind, that they are doing those things in the name of God. Sure, they are irrational and perhaps deluded, but they seem to believe that.

We, as Christians, deplore that and in no way agree with it. It is, however, reality that we cannot ignore.

It's called faith. Unquestioning faith. No matter the religion, when an individual carries out an act because he believes it is the will of God (whatever God he may be following) he imparts his faith on the lives of others. All acts of faith could be discounted as irrational and deluded. No one group has the market on faith. No one group has a justification to impose it's version of faith on the world. No one knows Truth.

I have little doubt that if we were to examine your life, we would find a high degree of conformity to the mores of your peers. You are a member of a flock somewhere, I am sure, even though it may not be religious.

Intrepid wrote:

Those people who do bad things are thinking, in their mind, that they are doing those things in the name of God. Sure, they are irrational and perhaps deluded, but they seem to believe that.

We, as Christians, deplore that and in no way agree with it. It is, however, reality that we cannot ignore.

It's called faith. Unquestioning faith. No matter the religion, when an individual carries out an act because he believes it is the will of God (whatever God he may be following) he imparts his faith on the lives of others. All acts of faith could be discounted as irrational and deluded. No one group has the market on faith. No one group has a justification to impose it's version of faith on the world. No one knows Truth.

real life wrote:

I have little doubt that if we were to examine your life, we would find a high degree of conformity to the mores of your peers. You are a member of a flock somewhere, I am sure, even though it may not be religious.

hmmm, let me think about that....

I'm self employed, not a soccer mom, don't drive an SUV, call foul where I see it in my community rather than avoid rocking the boat. It's possilbe real life, but I'm much more a coyote than a sheep. :wink:

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J_B, what good would faith be if we questioned it all the time? What good would God be if He had to prove Himself to mortal man?

I have to disagree with you about no one knows truth. I agree no one knows the 100% truth, but one can and does know truth.