The Atheist Asks #7: Can I buy your soul? (Hate Mirror) (Offensive Content)

[GrimKingGrim]

So as I've mentioned before that I am unleashed outside these forums but here I'm more of a calm lad and less compelled to attack.

So over the last 3 weeks I've been in an ongoing battle over a post that should have been over by now but anyway here's the picture.

Mind you I don't go around looking for targets to throw darts at but I felt compelled here. This picture got on my nerves appearing in my timeline while I'm looking for my next story to read.

So I popped in

Mind you I was just trying to make a statement and be on my way. Didn't think it would span into a 3 week face-off with people. So it went with back and forth with posts like these.

I have more to show but that'd get off topic here point is is that it is 188 messages and going.

Now here's where I'm headed. This was the latest post from someone. (A bit of context: someone admitted they lost someone in their family and I had admitted a family friend died a couple days ago. Just to give a bit of info to make the post make complete sense)

I responded.

My point I made painfully clear in my post was that it seems the whole idea of "I'm worthless without Christ" seems very masochistic and self-destructive. I don't like the idea at all and I make it a point to tell people to cut it out.

I feel as though people are coping with hating themselves by inventing someone who loves them in their mind. It doesn't make the self hatred problem go away, but instead makes it even worse.

The Question is: How do you see yourself? Imagine if you found out tomorrow there is no "God" out there. How do you see yourself now? How would you cope?

 

[juvenissun]

The Question is: How do you see yourself? Imagine if you found out tomorrow there is no "God" out there. How do you see yourself now? How would you cope?

You have no God. Why should I be any worse than you are?

 

[GrimKingGrim]

Ask yourself that.

 

[terryjohn]

There are many gods. Which god are you talking about? If i found out that i was not god, i would be releaved, because i couldn't honestly believe such a thing./QUOTE]

 

[johnford]

The Question is: How do you see yourself? Imagine if you found out tomorrow there is no "God" out there. How do you see yourself now? How would you cope?

I don't need to 'image' I just look around and see lots of people living in their own hell while shouting that they are really free. The reason I'm a Christian is that what else is on offer sucks ...

 

[Archaeopteryx]

The Question is: How do you see yourself? Imagine if you found out tomorrow there is no "God" out there. How do you see yourself now? How would you cope?

I first started having intrusive thoughts when I was age 14. At the time I had no idea that this was a cardinal symptom of OCD, so for several months I kept these intrusive thoughts to myself and held them at bay by engaging in compulsive rituals. One day, however, one particular intrusive thought shook me deeply. Even now I don't feel comfortable sharing it. Suffice it to say that it led me to believe that God had forsaken me; that I was beyond redemption. In that instant, and for weeks (perhaps months) thereafter, I believed myself to be worthless because, in my mind, I was no longer of any value to God. I had succumb to despair and my ability to cope diminished to the point where I could no longer hide my inner turmoil.

In response to your question then, some would find it very difficult to cope. But that's only if they believe that the value of their life depends on there being some deity to serve as a giver of value.

 

[GrimKingGrim]

I don't need to 'image' I just look around and see lots of people living in their own hell while shouting that they are really free. The reason I'm a Christian is that what else is on offer sucks ...

Soo answer the question?

The question asked you of your view of yourself. Not what type of package deal that "what else is on offer" can give you.