Vacation

To all of my follower's, reader's, and stopper by's; I will be taking a rather extended vacation, about 10 weeks.

So I am asking you to hang in there. I will continue to write on this vacation, but will have no access to a computer so I will not be posting for a while. I promise you as soon as I come back The Bible: In the Raw will be filled with tons of fresh new content, so hang in there.

You have provided me more success than I ever imagined so I'd like to say thank you. Just trust me that I'm coming back. Ha unlike Jesus, I actually will come back :)

So I guess I'll say, see you soon. Keep a look out for the end of September, this is when I will be returning from my vacation.

I was thinking you guys could leave comments on this post about what you like/ dislike about the blog and also what you would like to see more/ less of.

Thanks again,

LDagnostic

Who will burn in Hell? (Response)

Hey everyone, I wanted to share with you a reader's response to my post "Who will burn in Hell". If you have not read the post you can do that here. For those of you who have read it, I hope you enjoy the response, and please leave a comment, let me and the person who responded know how you liked it.

"Anonymous said...

My father died of cancer when I was 13. On my 14th birthday, he was buried.

He was a wonderful man. He was a Christian man that lived what he believed in a manner that I have not seen of many people calling themselves Christians. He died in a cruel, painful manner that no one deserves. This was a real eye opener for teenager.

When I started asking questions of the religious leaders he respected and that I was raised to respect from birth, I got the standard line. God works in mysterious ways. My personal favorite was that we as humans were simply unable to understand god's grand plan for us and that we must keep faith with him as he knew best. I tried to follow this advice and found I had two paths before me and I had to decide which to take.

The first path was to accept god's mysterious plan and my ignorance of my own well being and carry on, avoiding logical thinking. The second path was to ask the hard questions and based on the answers to those, make a rational and informed choice to accept or reject the faith I was raised in.

I asked the questions and I did the thinking. It was not something that happened overnight and was a 10 year process. At the end of my journey this is what I was comfortable in believing.

There is no such thing as god or heaven or hell. If these things existed, would I really want to think highly of an entity that had the power to prevent so much pain and suffering and did not use it? My father and others I loved had died and that was it. Their lives were over and we all would not meet again in paradise no matter how good I was or how deeply devout I became. There was no hell and sometimes people do not get what they deserve. There is very little justice in our world. Good people get sick and die when the world would have been better off for having them in it a little longer. Some bad people live to be 90. People get sick and they die and that is not by the will of a higher power, it is due to the imperfections of the physical body that can not heal itself from all illness.

I wouldn't worry too much about heaven and hell and where your grandfather went. Just like my father, he died and all that is left of him are the memories he left behind in the people that loved him. I have no idea why this prospect is so scary for so many. You are born, you live, you die and instead of worrying about the next life that there is absolutely no reason to believe exists, concentrate on the life you have and making the most of it. It seems our dead loved ones did that in their lives. All that is left of them is us. We should keep them alive in thought and sharing the stories of them with others. I think your grandfather would be proud of you if he was able to see this. My father would probably not agree with me but respect me for using my own mind. May they both rest in peace within us. 


http://aftersomethought.blogspot.com"

Great quote, absolutely great.

This quote was taken from The Atheist Missionary  blog; I love Hitchens so I figured I would share with everyone.


Enjoy..

"This is a killer quote by Christopher Hitchens:

Let’s say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Dawkins thinks maybe a quarter-of-a-million. I’ll take 100,000. In order to be a Christian, you have to believe that for 98,000 years, our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about 25 years, dying of their teeth. Famine, struggle, bitterness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for 98,000 years. Heaven watches this with complete indifference. And then 2000 years ago, thinks “That’s enough of that. It’s time to intervene,” and the best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice somewhere in the less literate parts of the Middle East. Don’t let us appeal to the Chinese, for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. Let’s go to the desert and have another revelation there. This is nonsense. It can’t be believed by a thinking person."

So what do you guys think?
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