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Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the market-place, and cried incessantly: "I am looking for God! I am looking for God!"
As many of those who did not believe in God were standing together there, he excited considerable laughter. Have you lost him, then? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid of us? Has he gone on a voyage? or emigrated? Thus they shouted and laughed. The madman sprang into their midst and pierced them with his glances.
"Where has God gone?" he cried. "I shall tell you. We have killed him - you and I. We are his murderers. But how have we done this? How were we able to drink up the sea? Who gave us the sponge to wipe away the entire horizon? What did we do when we unchained the earth from its sun? Whither is it moving now? Whither are we moving now? Away from all suns? Are we not perpetually falling? Backward, sideward, forward, in all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is it not more and more night coming on all the time? Must not lanterns be lit in the morning? Do we not hear anything yet of the noise of the gravediggers who are burying God? Do we not smell anything yet of God's decomposition? Gods too decompose. God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we, murderers of all murderers, console ourselves? That which was the holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet possessed has bled to death under our knives. Who will wipe this blood off us? With what water could we purify ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we need to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we not ourselves become gods simply to be worthy of it? There has never been a greater deed; and whosoever shall be born after us - for the sake of this deed he shall be part of a higher history than all history hitherto."
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science 108
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Most Christians at a point of time question their religion and the existence of God. While I do not question the latter, recently I've been brought to do the former.
Long back ago when WTC was destroyed by terrorists, many people questioned Christianity. Some went into the religion, and some left. Both have reasons. Some asked where God was, and some said God was there because few people were in the building at the time. While some were unconvinced, some Christians felt that God had intervened in this way.
More recently in the Tsunami, many were killed, families destroyed, lives ruined, and many things undescribable by words. This time, far more people questioned the existence of God. Obviously 'few people were on the islands' is not going to make sense nor is it close to true, but some stories of Christians surviving (like Samuel Chan's story during the Superstar Virgo bible study) led them to believe that this was a warning from God. Some also said that this was a chance for Christians to show their goodness, spreading the truth.
Now assume for a moment this is true. Now comes a simple question: Why the heck would this be a chance for Christians to show their goodness if it killed so many non-christians? But that's not relevent, just some amusing food for thought.
Everywhere in churches people talk of God's graciousness, God's kindness and absolute morality. God bears ultimate compassion, and only because of the grace of God do people go into Heaven.
Hello, can anyone tell me with a straight face that God sent a tsunami to Earth to be a warning and to let Christians show the truth, meanwhile letting all who died go to Heaven?
People always say that everyone is sinful and only salvation can be achieved through Jesus Christ (Who incidentally kena owned by consumerism but that's 2 posts down). But why the heck are we advocating God as such a compassionate being? The only way those two aforementioned events could have occured would be if
1. God didn't exist
2. God existed and let the event occur
3. God's not as omnipotent as people put him as.
Christians aren't going to say 1 is true, that leaves 2 and 3. If 3 was true, then that's quite contradictory of our religion isn't it. If 2 was true (It makes more sense than 3 honestly), then we bring out more questions
Did God do this to turn people to Christianity? Or did he do this as a warning to the rest who survive?
Obviously neither answer is going to reflect on God as a compassionate being. Which Christian honestly believes that it's worth killing one million people to turn people to Christianity, or even worse, one million people on the death toll just to serve as a warning.
Most Christians just place blind faith in their God, never questioning Him and His actions, never questioning the bible, always thinking that God is the king of mercy and compassion, when he so obviously isn't. These Christians worship a God of mercy and compassion. Hello, say that in a victim's face.
From Mike's blog and from Mr. Johnaton Ng, "Many can view God as a God of love, but few can view Him as a God of wrath. Many can view God as a God of mercy, but few can view Him as a God of judgement."
Some Christians say that God is absolute moral. What worse lies can be said? Many, but that's irrelevent. Saying that God is absolute moral is a defiance to the very basis of morality. Is morality now defined by the actions of an omnipotent entity, or is God not absolute moral? I'd take the latter, thank you very much.
Christians worship an alleged God who is all compassionate and merciful. A God who is perfect. HELLO WAKE UP ALREADY LAH! God isn't going to be perfect by your standards. By our standards he's probably some omnipotent dude with his ups and downs. Perhaps he is perfect, but not by our definition of that word.
Christianity as it is now lies in absolute hypocrisy, lies and blind faith in a God whom is not what they think He is. Will this ever change? Who knows.
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