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What's wrong with god belief?

So what’s so bad about god belief? Belief in god for most believers entails a belief in an invisible all powerful super being that created the universe. God belief for most also means a belief in an invisible world where the super being lives where good people will go when they die.This shallow type of god belief is to me a little silly since there is no proof whatsoever that an invisible super being lives in an invisible world, the key word being invisible of course. However I suppose there is…See More

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"KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban on Sunday ordered their first public executions by stoning since their fall from power nine years ago, killing a young couple who had eloped, according to Afghan officials and a witness. Notes from…"

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"Another copy of a post of mine from a newspaper religious forum. Phil Greer I have provided below a short list of a few crimes that the god of the bible should be held accountable for from the site listed below. I hope some of you Christians will…"

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"Hello new unbelieving friends! I hope it’s Ok if I post one or 3 of my posts from newspaper religious forums. I hope that you would find them interesting. Phil Greer aka acrowley Read the bible with a free mind, Freethinker; A person who…"

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"You are what you believe you are. Many are part of a cohesive like-minded belief. Some are on the outer fringes. These are the majority. They say they are part of the belief so as not to be thought of as a non-believer. There is strength and safety…"

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"I have to admit it, Christians aren’t my favorite people. They seem to think they are in some private little club. This club has its own little ceremony’s, songs, and language. Though they wouldn’t admit it they feel they have…"

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About Me: This is one of my posts on a newspaper forum. It tells my story.
Phil Greer

The apostle Paul wrote in Colossians 3:2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.

Paul couldn’t have stated the problem any better that truly arises with the belief in invisible gods and invisible god worlds that don’t exist. To the degree that the god believer sets his or her mind on things above, in other words heavenly things that don’t exist, he removes himself from the reality of this world that does exist.

Let me give you the easiest example that I have available to give; my own experience with god belief.

I was brought up in a very legalistic Christian church known as “the Church of Christ”. As the result of my childhood indoctrination within this hell fire and damnation church, I lived my childhood in a constant state of fear that judge god was going to send me to be tortured in hell forever.

There was no way that I could live up to the standard of perfection that god had set for me. It seemed that most everything that I did, said or thought was a sin. I lived within a dark cloud of guilt.

At about the age of 16, when I began to think for myself I fled my parent’s “church of hell” with a deep hatred of the horrible “judge god” that I had found there.

Think about all those wasted childhood years locked up within a world of guilt, sin, fear and eventually hate of what was a false reality, a belief in a god and a hell that didn’t exist.

This is an important time of my life that I can never get back.

I have given you an example of the internal struggles that can result from a false belief in god and created worlds.

You may say that I have it all wrong. “Oh, but Jesus died an atoning death on the cross to pay the penalty for my sins.” Heaven, not hell awaits you if you repent and put your faith in Christ”.

Well; “been there done that” (many years after my teenage flight from “the Church of Christ” at a different church.)

All of this means nothing, going from a negative god experience to a positive god experience doesn’t change this fact; god is nowhere to be found nor has he ever been.

My most recent god experience was “heaven instead of hell” you might say. This doesn’t make god real anymore than my “god of hell” time did.

Time is still wasted, money is still wasted and reality is stepped out of in favor of a delusional life of service to a product of mans imagination.

Set your mind on things above indeed.

I prefer earthly things.
acrowley

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At 6:13pm on August 12, 2010, Dr. Terence Meaden said…: Hello Phil, and what a story. So, welcome to this friendly meeting place with freethinkers who recognise that gods are fictions and religions exist to control vulnerable superstitious people including defenceless children;
how tragic and inexcusable it is that women and minorities have been oppressed these last two thousand years and longer.

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