Christians know their beliefs are false!

I just had to comment on this posting I saw in Facebook. This one little piece of paper says a lot about what Christians really believe and how they have to constantly convince themselves and others that they got it right when in fact, deep down, they know it’s not true.

If you’ve read C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity” you’ll see that he admits that you can reason out of Christianity. His solution? Just keep saying over and over that Christianity is true. And of course, pray. It’s like the person that doesn’t want to hear that climate change is manmade so he sticks his fingers in his ears and keeps saying “NO NO NO” over and over hoping the truth will magically go away.

The person who wrote these answers got it right. Logic, reason, atheism and God’s non-existence are just some of the things that shoot down Christianity. I would only add skepticism and critical thinking.

The sentences at the bottom are attempts to put the guilt on the believer. Basically it’s saying that the believer is screwed up and shouldn’t trust this reason crap. The believer has to buy what we spoon feed them in church and in class, despite what this logic and reason stuff might say.

Reminds me of a quote I saw about Joyce Meyer who wrote a book to help parent deal with teenagers who, perish the thought, are questioning their belief. Here’s what she said, “I once asked the Lord why so many people are confused and He said to me, ‘Tell them to stop trying to figure everything out, and they will stop being confused.’ I have found it absolutely true. Reasoning and confusion go together.” Joyce Meyer - Battlefield of the Minds of Teens

Notice how Mrs Meyer is pals with the Lord. Money talks I guess!

So according to Mrs. Meyer and the school or church where this paper came from, forget all that logic and reason bullshit. Go with the batshit you learn in church. Doesn’t this make you feel good about where our country is headed?

Religion hung up on gay sex

It’s been sometime since I wrote so hopefully in the future the gap between my blog postings will be shorter.

I’m intrigued with the discussion from the religious folks about gay marriage. Seems like they frequently bring up the sex that gays engage in and how sex is supposed to be only between a man and a woman. And that any other type of sex isn’t right. Their argument is something like “If you allow gay marriage, the next thing you know, men will marry dogs or pigs,” or something along those lines. The issue of gay marriage doesn’t center on the two people who want to take care of each other in the minds of the evangelicals but inevitably goes towards the type of sex they have.

I’ve long held that marriage, at its core, is simply a societal contract between two people. Period. It’s two people who commit that they live as a unit in the eyes of the law and society and with that comes certain duties, obligations and rights that each of them share. It’s simply not about having sex or the type of sex they have or when they start to have sex or if they choose to have children. Through out history young people have never waited for a piece of paper before they had sex. Biological urges trump any legal or social bans on sex.

The religious right think that if they continue to harp of the sex aspect of homosexuality, the public will turn towards their view. That hasn’t happened and there are no signs that it will. The reason, I think, that the religious focus so much on the sex aspect of gay marriage is that, deep down, they know they are loosing the public on the issue of marriage equality. The keep bringing up the old canards of “it’s a choice” or “it’s unnatural” forgetting that humans are complex creatures and we all have different ways we live our lives.

Good old Mike Huckabee said recently speaking of the Supreme Courts refusal to hear lower courts over turns of gay marriage bans, “Now, this is not just about same-sex marriage, with which I frankly disagree with. I, by the way, hold the same view that President Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden held until just 2 years ago - that it was inconsistent with nature and nature's law.”  Where is nature’s law with regard to marriage? Marriage is a man made construct. In times past it was more or less a business deal between two families. And check your Bible, Mike, regarding marriage between one man and ONE woman. Plenty of biblical icons had many wives and many mistresses in marriage.

The bottom line is that the religious loonies are going to loose this battle. The younger generation has more concerns than who beds with who. Gay sex is here, has been and will be.