Dear Webmaster,
This site is disgusting, most of the articles you post, trying to show that Christianity is a fable, are grose misrepresentations of the will of God, where Christians have got it fatally wrong. I pray that God will convict your heart, I know he has already forgiven you of this. Abondoning God is one thing, but incouraging it for other people is not on.
I pray that this site has not contributed in sending a soul to hell. You have obviously never known God, because if you had, this site would never had been born. What you encountered was religion and Im sorry that you have turned your back on the most important thing in existance.
May God bless you, and may you find him, hes waiting for you to return and get to know him properly. People, God loves every one of you, dont let Satan take him away from you, hes the best thing that will ever happen to you. Truth cannot be destroyed, how ever hard you try. The truth is God, and will continue to be for eternity, and nothing that anybody says or does can change that. The journey continues, I grieve that you arnt part of it.
These letters were published between January 2001 and February 2010. To view recent posts, go to The Main Blog at ExChristian.Net
4 comments:
Just wanted to say that christianity didn't own a patent on an antagonistic god or spirit. There are many antagonistic gods and spirits that christianity borrowed from and many other cultures apart from christianity had.
Judaism wasn't traditionally dualistic, they were monists and thus didn't carry an antagonistic god. Hence their god was both got of good and evil, for better and for worse.
However, pre-christian zoroastrianisms' "Angru Mainyu", is the name for their Chthonic underworld god of darkness and was the chief antagonist of Ahura Mazda. Zoroastrianism, ~1800BCE-600BCE
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angra_Mainyu
The Greeks had Hades in charge of the underworld.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hades
Hawaii: Maui is an extremely powerful god, for whom the island of Maui was named. At one point, he was married to Rohe, but she left him and became Queen of Uranga-o-Te-Ra, the fifth level of the underworld."
"In a story of the M?ori, Maui attempted to achieve immortality for himself and all of mankind by crawling through the Hine-nui-te-Po's (the goddess of death) body while she slept. He was to crawl through her vagina (reversing the birth process) and crush her heart from the inside. She awoke because a songbird laughed at the sight of a grown man trying to unbirth himself, and Maui was crushed to death by her vagina; he was the first man to die. Had he succeeded, however, the M?ori believe there would have been little or no aroha (love) in the world, because life would have no longer been fleeting, and therefore no longer precious."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maui_%28mythology%29
My favorite Myths involve the Tricksters;
"The trickster deity breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects. Often, the rule-breaking takes the form of tricks (eg. Eris) or thievery. Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both; they are often very funny even when considered sacred or performing important cultural tasks."
Tricksters:
Abenaki mythology ... Azeban
Akan mythology ... Kwaku Ananse
American folklore ... Brer Rabbit and Aunt Nancy, a corruption of Anansi (Ananse)
Ashanti mythology ... Ananse
Australian Aboriginal mythology mythology ... Bamapana
Aztec mythology ... Tezcatlipoca
Basque mythology ... San Martin Txiki
Brazilian folklore ... Saci-Pererê
Celtic mythology ... Fairy, Puck
Chinese mythology ... Nezha, Sun Wukong (the Monkey King)
Chippewa mythology ... Nanabozho
Judeo-Christian ... Jacob
Crow mythology ... Awakkule, Mannegishi
French folklore ... Reynard the Fox
Fijian mythology ... Ndauthina
German folklore ... Till Eulenspiegel
Greek mythology ... Eris, Prometheus, Hephaestos, Hermes Trismegistus, Odysseus (example of a human trickster, who manages to evade dangers thanks to his wits. The cyclops Polyphemus is an example of this)
Haida mythology ... Nankil'slas (Raven spirit), (Coyote)
Hawaiian mythology ... Kappa, Maui
Hopi and Zuni mythology ... Kokopelli
Indonesian folklore ... Kantjil
Inuit mythology ... Amaguq
Japanese mythology ... Kitsune, Susanoo
!X? mythology ... Mantis
Lakota mythology ... Iktomi
Navajo mythology ... Tonenili
Nootka mythology ... Chulyen, Guguyni
Norse mythology ... Loki
Northwest Caucasian mythology ... Sosruko
Ojibwe mythology ... Nanabush
Polynesian mythology ... Iwa, Kaulu, Maui, Ono, Pekoi
Tibetan folklore ... Agu Tonpa
Ute mythology ... Cin-an-ev
Vodun (Voodoo) ... Ti Malice, Baron Samedi
Yoruba mythology ... Eshu
"The Trickster is an example of a Jungian Archetype. The Fool survives in modern playing cards as the Joker. In modern literature the trickster survivers as a character archetype, not necessarily supernatural or divine, therefore better described as a stock character."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickster
Nothing like being the underdog, and getting over on god(s), makes life exciting and mysterious. Tricksters were also useful in explaining why bad things happened to good people, and why good things happened to bad people. Judaism, went solo, and everyone was stuck with its their fault of gods fault, hence a lot of stress in a Jews' life as they really didn't have anyone to blame. Explains the heavy laws enacted, and dietary laws, etc, as they had to be perfect for their god, no one else to blame for their mistakes and all Jews looked at eachother to ensure they were keeping with the tradition.
I was brought up as a Mormon - but now realise it's all nomsense - mytths and misprpresentations.
I'm an ex-crispie...(my term for the wacked-out,f**ked up folks who try to shove their bullshit morality down everyone else's throats)...and I know during the time I actually was stupid enough to believe this load of crap my life was a complete shambles. I spent years in and out of therapists because I was terrified that I was going to burn in some hell because I could never be perfect in the eyes of some invisible-big-beard-in-the-sky. It's a so-called religion based on putting fear into the hearts people to keep them under control. Constantine knew what he was doing when he set up this bullshit religion. He saw it as a way to keep the populace under control by keeping them living in fear of the "wrath of god"...i.e. the bloody, vicious war the established churched waged on every other so-called "pagan" religion. (Pagan, by the way, actually meant country people or folks...not what the damned crispies have corrupted it into.) islam is the bastard child of this bloody reign, and now the parent can't hold a light to the child it's created. Personally, all you crispies can take your god and the bastard demon child you helped spawn go to your damned hell you believe in so much.
Every since I realized that this is a load of b.s. and got over being terrified of some non-exsistent god and 'his' wrath...I am happy and have comlete peace inside myself...I don't live in fear.
Oh yeah, and by the way, there is NO SATAN! That is a misinterpretation of the hebrew 'ha-satan'...which means AN
adversary...not THE adversary. I really wish you'd people get a damned clue and really research the facts before you decide that the bullshit your spouting is the "god's honest truth". PUH-LEEZE! Organized religion is a bane to humanity. It will kill any spritual growth. Just look at the world crisis in the middle east...yep. Real spritual people those muslims. Same goes for the cripies in this country. Most of don't ever really believe in any of the drivel you spout as "gospel truth"...it's lip service given to a non-exsistent god out of fear and ignorance.
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