Tag: Christianity

How to be Willfully Ignorant and DESTROY Your Opponents

This post started out about evolution but, due to natural selection, morphed into a post about evolution, politics, and how in-group thinking hijacks our free will and makes us robots who think just like everyone around us, but we feel really individual about it. I expect it to do very poorly in terms of shares as people have routinely shown me they are disinterested in these types of posts. Let’s jump to it.

The lesson to take away from this article is, “Hey man, let’s give people the respect of trying to understand their claim before we argue with them.” If you can internalize that you don’t really need to read the rest of it.

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On God Part VI-Does Prayer have the Power

I’m genuinely undecided on the idea of prayer. Much like the existence of God, there is no direct proof that prayer helps those we’re praying for. There’s anecdotal evidence up the wazoo- someone, somewhere knows someone who was near death but someone prayed for them and they were healed- but there’s no direct evidence.

Many of us are tempted to call the example above direct evidence, but it’s not a fair comparison because the opposite is not also true. When someone is near death and we pray for them and they aren’t healed, we don’t count that as evidence that prayer doesn’t work. This sets up a situation where any positive evidence is counted while all negative evidence is thrown out.

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On God Part V.I- Heaven, Hell and the Mind-Numbing Prospect of Eternity

Today I want to talk about what happens after we die. You might be wondering why I’m even talking about what happens after we die since On God Part III is all about the afterlife. Your question is noted and ignored. This post is ALSO about the afterlife, but totally different. Here I’ll concentrate on who makes it into heaven, who gets sent to hell, and the mind-numbing prospect of eternity.

The mind-numbing prospect of eternity section will have to wait for On God Part V.II because this post ballooned to over 5,000 words, so I decided to break it up. This is Part I of a two-part post, which is already Part V of a larger rabbit hole I’m taking from my usual topics, which already can best be described as rabbit holes. Thanks for being readers of my financial blog, you guys. Continue reading “On God Part V.I- Heaven, Hell and the Mind-Numbing Prospect of Eternity”

On God Part IV- God Sends Jesus to Die for Our Sins

I always have mixed feelings when I put something out there about my faith. I come from a long line of Christian men and women. For a lot of the people in my family faith isn’t just one aspect of life, it’s the only thing that matters. I grew up attending countless church services and always had a close relationship with Jesus. As I grew up I started to have questions about some of the stories in the Bible. I didn’t so much doubt THAT they happened, but I questioned WHY they happened. 

One of my favorite things in life is contemplating the religion I grew up with. I can’t emphasize enough how large of a focus Christianity was to my upbringing. This series is fun and cathartic for me, but I also can’t help but feel a little guilty for how it might make some people feel. I’m not purposefully being a smug little shit with the way I depict the characters. But, I don’t want to tiptoe around some of my doubts. I aim to hold a light up to them. If there’s no monster in the closet, that’s not on me. 

Please note: If the below cartoons are likely to offend you please consider not being offended by cartoons. This is meant to be funny and thought-provoking, not disrespectful and offensive.

Several years ago God looked down on the world and was super not into what he saw. People were sinning and killing animals to pay for the sins and it was all a bit much. He had already promised to not flood the world again so he had to think of a better way to get people to start behaving. Long story short, Jesus came to Earth to pay for our sins, and I have a lot of thoughts about that. Continue reading “On God Part IV- God Sends Jesus to Die for Our Sins”