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"The Bible portrays God as a bearded old man that acts like a stern father or a king on a throne, because Jesus and others used the father metaphor for God and the kingdom metaphor for heaven. A metaphor is not meant to be literal truth, but people, past and present, are saying that they are the literal truth. It is time for people to stop doing it. It distorts the truth, and it is misleading.
Jesus said, “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.”
The Bible portrays God as everything (alpha and omega), and as an old man in the sky. It is just one of many, many, many contradictions in the Bible. Even with all the contradictions, many people still insist that it is the literal truth. If anyone deserves to burn forever, it is people that say they believe that the myths are true. They have no regard for the truth, and they make it so difficult for the real truth to be known.
In Christianity, neither morality nor religion comes into contact with reality at any point. Friedrich Nietzsche
Watching over us: The whole concept of a man/God in the sky is very egotistical. Only a life form that is really full of itself (mankind) would think that another life form would devote its life to their life. The truth is, no one is watching you, and you would not want it any other way.
The truth is, no one would really want the myths to be the truth.
Everyone really wants a little privacy. People that say “I can feel God watching over me” really give me the willies. That means the God they envision watches them in the bathroom and when they are having sex. The same people think the same thing about loved ones that have passed away. I sure hope my mom and grandmother are not watching me. I know they are living their own new life.
People really do not think about the things they say. No one would really want anyone watching them all the time, especially not a judgmental old man, or a parent. The only time they would like it is when they are in trouble. It is just a myth, and thank God it is."
From "The Truth About God" section at
http://www.truthcontest.com/entries/the-present-with-religion/This post was edited by Eti_fr on Sep 29 2012 05:22am