16th March 2003, 4:01 PM
Quote:Great Rumbler, all God would ever have to do to eternally lead everybody to eternal salvation is reveal himself to the masses.
The typical rebuttal of this would be: "Well, God works in mysterious ways... you see, he's doing this all to test us. To test our faith."
Why? What's the point of all this? Doesn't it disturb anyone else that God wants to "test" us to save the "strong" and kill off the "weak"? What kind of twisted being is at work here? Who decides to go "test" people to see if they believe in his word, and either rewards or punishes them based on beliefs that he chooses? Freedom of thought should be a fundamental that goes WITHOUT punishment or rewards based on how these thought agree with an authority. All of these arguments make God appear very human-like to me.
This whole "Not everyone should get in heaven" is rather disturbing as well. It's too much of an elitest, exclusive notion for me to embrace, no matter how tempting it would be to sell my soul for such salvation.
These are all the problems I have with religion. I'm not saying I believe their is no god, I'm saying that if there is a god, then I'd be disturbed to think that all this is his word and his plan.