My Single Mom Life

I really love your Sunday Service. The twist on the Sunday morning church mentality is awesome, and it's great to have something to really think about. :)

Carlin is my god! Always right on!

The truth of the matter is, I spent so many years going to church and buying into the scam and then so many years studying it and questioning it and learning the truth and then accepting the truth which is hard for people to do, that I am at this point where I laugh at religion. I see all these people suffering and praying to god because he made promises to save them if they only believed and that saving never comes and the human part of me feels bad that they wasted so much time when they could have just been 'alive' and 'living' but they didn't because they were afraid to do something against him. And the sick part of me, the twisted part of me, laughs at their gullibility. The bitchy part of me enjoys pissing the believers off on the day that they hold so dear for an hour or 2 at church and then come home and watch some sports and have a few beers and cursing at the ref on a 'holy day'.

That's right Heather because as George says, we created God in our own image and likeness.

He is one of the funniest guys! Thanks for the religion - and the laughs ;-)

Hope you're having a good day! *hugs*

Hahahaha! I love it! Then again I love just about anything Carlin says!

Bwahahahhahhaha. :) I love Carlin. I bounce back and forth -- sometimes, although not often, it's a live and let live -- they aren't shoving it down my throat, so let 'em be sheep. Mostly I bounce between "what a bunch of f'ing morons, don't they see how stupid it is?" and feeling angry and frustrated that they waste so much of their lives believing in something so pointless, waiting for the spook in the sky to take care of things. That's mostly when my mom is being a doormat because Jeezus will work it all out in the end.

Carlin always nails it on the head! I've loved him since I was a teen - we listened to his records over and over and caught him on TV whenever we could.

Kat - may I ask a quessy: what's your personal opinion on the bible?

Do you think the stories within are true, ie that they're a description of what happened a few thousand years ago?

Andy, I think it's the greatest piece of fiction ever written. It has many authors with many stories to tell. They all claim to have had personal experiences with him. Fascinating. The stuff in revelations is remarkable. Right out of a horror novel.

I think a story was started to tell the beginnings of our world because people need an explanation. They have to know the who's the whys the whats of everything and with no way to scientifically explain life, they made up God. They didn't have the science or the ability to comprehend, the way we do now and where we can prove that man evolved from ape whereas the bible says that god formed us in his image.

It just sort of snowballed from there. People just added their ideas to it. It's like the greatest authors books. You ever see those? Where every great horror novelist writes one short story and they throw it in a book and everyone oohs and ahhs over the brilliance of everyone and the stories inside it. It's like that.

The great works of the early world. Fiction at it's finest. Seas parting, bushes burning and talking, whales swallowing people, people being turned to salt, fire and brimstone raining down from the skies. The skies blackening and earthquakes at his crucifixion. Coincidence or a sign from God? They took it as all powerful all mighty speaking to them when in fact, the earth was still growing, still changing every single day just as it changes every single day now. Nature moves and grows and that day was just nature growing and they all cowered in fear because some dipshit said there was a big guy up in the sky watching you and you better not piss him off and now look what you did! You killed the big guys son and he's gonna thunder and boom and shake shit.

If Jesus was the son of a God, do you really think he would have just shook shit? What do your parental instincts tell you? Someone kills your son and you just shake shit? Hell no! You get pissed! You want revenge and you scream and you fight and yell and throw a tantrum.

He darkens the skies and shakes the earth. OOOhhhh, so powerful all mighty. Not.

They feared because someone wrote down that they should. Someone said don't do these things or the big buy in the sky is gonna get mad and they all fell for it and millions of new people fall for it every single day with no proof of any existence. No proof that there is anyone up there. Nothing. It's one big scam and people are blind.

Thanks for you long answer. Kat!

My thoughts: I don't think it's possible to discredit every last story in the bible; I think some of the things detailed in the bible happened - the bible is a collection of stories, of which some are true, some are exaggerated to illustrate a point, some are pure fiction, and some are mistranslated (eg there's apparently just one word in ancient Hebrew for land, country, world. So the story of Noah's flood in the Old Testament might have been about a large or small flood, depending on who translated that bit).

I think there probably was a man, Jesus, two thousand years ago, and that man had a profound effect on people that they had to write stories (to form the New Testament). But that's where it ends. I don't believe in a god, I don't believe in virgin birth, I don't believe Jesus was the son of God. There might have been a last supper and a crucifiction, but I don't think anybody rose from the dead, nor were there any other miracles. Perhaps Jesus was a magician who used magic to illustrate his stories?

(I was brought up Catholic, and obviously don't believe in God)

Speaking of religion and fun stuff .. have you read The Da Vinci Code?

I'm almost done with it and I must say it's a awesome book. It has made me want to read up a little more on Da Vinci, and religion etc. to see what is fact and what is fiction. :-P

I don't discredit every single story either. I do believe that there was a man named jesus who was crucified. I just think that many of the stories were embellished to make people think that there was a god and that this jesus was his son.
I just find it funny and interesting, that in this day and age, with all the scientific proof of mans early years on this planet and our ability to trace it back to apes, that there are people who still believe that we are in his image. That a god made us in his image. If this is true, then God was an ape.

I haven't read it yet. My friend Shell tried to send me a pdf version today but it wouldn't work. I'll just have to pick it up cheap at some point.

i totally agree with him!! wow that was awsome!! lol!!