Many people who claim they are "saved" will recount their vivid memories of the day and time when they "accepted Jesus" in their lives and were "saved".
I've been a (closet) atheist for many years, but this morning, driving to work, I found myself crossing some great divide. I was thinking about how Jesus is like the best "imaginary friend". He loves you, you can talk to him (and he answers, somehow), he never deserts you, yada, yada. Like a puppy, only eternally there.
So then someone says to you - "you can have this great imaginary friend". Then they way "You MUST accept this imaginary friend in your life or you will have eternal damnation." Then some other guy says "If you have this imaginary friend I will cut your head off. And btw eternal damnation for having imaginary friend." And then all the people with or without the imaginary friends demand that you take them seriously, when you don't take it seriously that your 5-year-old has an imaginary friend. Or that your slightly crazy cousin thinks his friend is talking to him via his tissue box.
The utter absurdity of the whole thing crashed down like a s*tload of bricks. I've always thought religions were, in general, innocuous, and I've attended the Catholic church (to pacify others) for decades. Now I suddenly get why some atheists are so militant.
I don't know where I go from here, since keeping the peace is ostensibly more important than trying to change anything :boxedin:
Venting here in the safest place I actually belong to.
I've been a (closet) atheist for many years, but this morning, driving to work, I found myself crossing some great divide. I was thinking about how Jesus is like the best "imaginary friend". He loves you, you can talk to him (and he answers, somehow), he never deserts you, yada, yada. Like a puppy, only eternally there.
So then someone says to you - "you can have this great imaginary friend". Then they way "You MUST accept this imaginary friend in your life or you will have eternal damnation." Then some other guy says "If you have this imaginary friend I will cut your head off. And btw eternal damnation for having imaginary friend." And then all the people with or without the imaginary friends demand that you take them seriously, when you don't take it seriously that your 5-year-old has an imaginary friend. Or that your slightly crazy cousin thinks his friend is talking to him via his tissue box.
The utter absurdity of the whole thing crashed down like a s*tload of bricks. I've always thought religions were, in general, innocuous, and I've attended the Catholic church (to pacify others) for decades. Now I suddenly get why some atheists are so militant.
I don't know where I go from here, since keeping the peace is ostensibly more important than trying to change anything :boxedin:
Venting here in the safest place I actually belong to.
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