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Now, when you think of God, what comes to mind?
(I actually don't have a picture to put here. Use your imagination.)
Well, anyways, the linking argument is that most people think we youngsters fall away from God during college. Now, there have been studies to show this to be true, and while that is sad, it is also a time of incredible transformation for many people. Not only do people discover (or re-discover) God in college, many times they pour out their entire lives to him! It's really an amazing period of life.
Yes, the parties can be fun, but a life full of purpose AND good fun is 10x better, I've discovered.
Why am I posting so seriously today? My my Jacob, you must have had a bad day...
No, actually not. I just started making plans to study abroad in Spain for a year. Holla gurl.
No, actually, the reason I bring this up is because lately me and few other friends have been going up against a guy on our floor who prides himself as the intelligent atheist. You know that stereotype you have of atheists? The young ones, angry at the world. hell-bent on destroying religion and proving everyone wrong? Yeah, that's him. It's sad, because I pray for him constantly (yet not as much as I feel I should), and it seems to make no difference. But God has a plan for all of us, no?
The thing I just can't understand is how atheists are so blind to their own fallacies?
I don't believe in something not proven by science.
Oh, that's my favorite. We can't prove a lot of things these days by science, yet we are grateful for them occurring. Also, when they start using the whole "it happened x amount of of years ago, therefore it can't be trusted" line, I only can smile and laugh, because we can't prove scientifically that anything happened in the past - we have to trust first-hand written accounts. Wanna prove George Washington crossed the Delaware? We can't; he didn't leave any footprint or evidence behind. We trust the accounts written are true, because nobody who saw it was alive.
If God's all powerful, why can't he stop starving children in Africa from dying?
He can, and he does sometimes, too. But he also is expecting us Christians - his followers - to step it up and show his love in physical form. Just because you have all the power, do you use it all the time? No; as a father, sometimes you allow your children to experience harmful things so that they know what not to do (yet we still do them) and that they know who really loves them.
We only have one life; we need to max it out.
Then why, in God's holy name, are you devoting your life being an ass to everyone else?! If you truly have one life, screw what we think; we should be irrelevant! Atheists should be skydiving, visiting foreign and exotic places, taking in all this awesome planet - whose creation was a total accident, by the way - has and live to the max. Because we only get these brief 80 some years, if you're lucky, then we're gone forever! But no, instead, they insist on mocking theists and religious people, tearing down good things that religion has built up over the years, and generally being angry at everything. Because guess what, religion is in everything. You can go about preaching it all you want, but people will always believe in something bigger than them.
Lastly, I just present a few questions. As one with no faith, where do you derive your moral standards? Christians bring it from the Bible, Muslims from the Koran, and others from their respective books. Atheists have no common book to gather around - Richard Dawkins The God Delusion hardly counts. Therefore, atheists cannot claim something that I do is "wrong" because their morals only apply to them; they have no universal atheist moral code. Christians do - granted it's not always followed - as do other religions. Atheists cannot claim the Holocaust was wrong, because at the time, people felt it was right.
Yes, I'm sure some atheist right now is coming up with a counterattack. But when they start diving into this realm, they gamble with their own logic, as we can't see or measure morals - therefore they can't exist, right?
Actually lastly, atheism in itself has become its own religion - believers of non-belief. Oppose it as you might, the collective group of new militant atheists is in tune with a religious cult.
I pray for them. While you may not agree with me, I definitely see no reason believers and non-believers cannot live in peace and harmony together. One day, we'll all come face to face with God, though, and we will be held accountable.
Jacob
All I got out of that was "Going to Spain for a year" and proceeded to freak out.
ReplyDeleteHonestly though, enjoyable post besides the Spain part.