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Sunday, December 14, 2014

A Non-believer Goes on a Quick Rant while being Judged by the Christian God After Death

Yahweh) Early in your life you believed in me but you later denied my existence as you grew older and no longer followed my book. In fact, you spent much of your life getting people to question their beliefs about me, what say you?

Non-believer) It’s true, I once believed in you very much, but I had questions about you that my peers weren't asking. So I asked these questions to men who had dedicated their lives to you and none of them had good answers and often their answers were very different to the same question - which was also odd since many of them claimed they could communicate with you! It’s as though your biggest fans didn't actually know you and just liked the idea that someone as powerful as yourself was on their side.

So after thinking about these questions further, I could no longer believe in you.

Morally I couldn't follow/worship a deity that would give instructions for slavery
(Leviticus 25:44-46) and genocide (Deuteronomy 13:13-16). In the book you had written for you, it says you are perfectly moral. So when I looked at the evidence, the most rational conclusion, was that you didn’t exist and was merely a delusion just as all the thousands of other gods humans have believed in.

And for crying out loud God, the 3rd verse in your book says you created light before you created my planet's' host star along with all the other stars in the cosmos. Light only exists because of the existence of stars. If the creator of the universe wrote a book, it wouldn't get something as simple as that wrong.

Now if you are going to throw me into your hell for not following a deity that endorsed slavery and genocide, and who asks people to follow him on nothing but faith, than you would be the one deserving of hell.

Faith is the most unreliable way of determining what is true, and if there were an evil being trying to gain followers, it would use FAITH along with FEAR to achieve it!

Why would you set up a world in which those who followed the evidence would come to the conclusion that you don’t exist? It’s as if you wanted to reward the gullible and punish those who dared to think critically about their beliefs.

Yes, for much of my life I did try to get people to question their beliefs, but not just their belief in you - but their belief in all gods. I did this because beliefs matter and actions are strongly tied to beliefs. We had people of other religions killing others for simply not believing as they did, and their holy books supported these actions. Your book supported these actions as well (Deuteronomy 13:7-9), but thankfully people stopped taking that part of your book so seriously!

Other than attempting to destroy these people, what other options did I have but to try and get people to think critically about their beliefs?

To require people to accept you based on faith was extremely idiotic and cruel; because those who rely on faith can’t demonstrate that they are correct and there were many people of other faiths unwilling to give theirs up. In fact, those that could demonstrate that they were correct, were completely ignored and often killed because it went against the faith of others!

So you ask me why I didn't continue to follow you, it’s because I wanted to do the right thing and wasn't going to follow a dangerous belief just because I thought it would keep me from being tortured for eternity. What would it say about me if I was willing to sacrifice my morality and integrity just because something more powerful than myself threatened to torture me if I didn't follow it? 

8 comments:

  1. I'm dying to hear Yahweh's reply...

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    1. Yes, If anyone reading this feels they know God well enough to respond on his behalf - Please share with us Yahweh's response.

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    2. Yeah... What the guy before the guy before him said

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    3. Yeah... What the guy before the guy before him said

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    4. To Darkness shall be Thee days.

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  2. At least he got one thing right. He realizes God does exist after he dies.

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    1. Keith, I thought I might get a comment such as yours from a believer, I was really hoping I wouldn't as it would mean the reader completely missed the point of the post.

      I'd suggest try reading it again, and opening your Bible up to the verses listed and reading them as well.

      Then come back and reply with whether the being should be worshipped even if it did exist.

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  3. I find your arguments interesting and would love to carve them out into different topics and tackle them one by one. There are answers to all of these objections to God from much more intelligent people than me. They can be conflicting answers but then some will be more true than others - that won't make them all wrong though.

    I wonder what the point of answering them would be though? Would it change anything?

    One thing is deafeningly silent in your journey. You talk of belief but that's not faith. You don't talk of a relationship, of knowing God, of having met God in any way. I think if you're looking for God through scientific enquiry or investigation, through apologetics, you'll find the answers if you look hard enough, faith in God is rational reasonable and moral, but I don't think you'll find God - and neither will your readers.

    God is found when you seek God with all your heart, not your mind. I'm not saying your mind is redundant (I'm currently studying for my second theology degree - mind definitely switched on!) and you really should ask these questions - perhaps if you'd had that chance to ask these questions more generously, and met greater openness and sensitivity in your community of faith you wouldn't have found such a vacuum, I don't know. But the Bible talks about seeking 'his' kingdom and all these things will be added. Understanding comes from faith.

    I can't answer for God, but I think if you were once in a relationship with God your conversation would have gone differently to the one you report.

    I invite you, and your readers, to seek God with your heart. It's harder than asking the questions, it requires faith, it's a risk, it's not for everyone - it's your choice.

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