Ranting
Samoa Prays to God
by lanky on Sep.30, 2009, under Christians, Ranting
If you haven’t heard there has been an earth quake and tsunami in Samoa. Being a deeply religious country most of the survivors have headed to Church to pray for assistance.
It is interesting to see that instead of getting themselves together and organising to rescue people and such they instead head to Church to beg God to do it.
Get out of Church and DO IT!
Are Christians Sending Souls to the Devil
by lanky on Jun.15, 2009, under Arguments, Christians, Ranting
Someone today mentioned something rather interesting to me and I have to expand upon her idea. She mentioned that folks that have never heard the word of God are set to enter heaven or at least purgatory. So while the heathens continue to live in their traditional ways and are none the wiser the Devil gets no new souls.
BUT! When the Christians come along preaching the word of God it opens up the barrel of new souls for the Devil. Because no matter how hard the Christians try, some folks just don’t want to give up hundreds, if not thousands of years of tradition to follow a dude who was nailed to a tree. And those folks bolster the Devil, their souls going to Hell since they heard the word and turned away.
So the Christians are shooting themselves in the foot. According to their own documents those that know about God and turn away are sent to Hell. Those that do not yet know won’t be going to Hell. They may not get into Heaven but at least they won’t join the armies of Hell to fight against Jesus.
From the Original Soap Box:
Scripture does not tell Christians to convert the heathen—it commands us to preach the Gospel of Christ, because “It is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes” (Rom 1:16). God converts them by the power of His Word; we simply bring the message.
If this is the way it is meant to be why is it that so many people seem to feel the need to preach it loudly at me and when I turn away from them they seem mightily offended that I didn’t listen to them, entranced by their magical fairy tale? Why must they follow me, accoust me on the streets and even come to my door? Where is the opt-out so I don’t get preached at all the time? And why do they get so upset when I try to talk to them about my own beliefs?
That is the part that really gets me. They come up to me to teach me about their religion, why can’t they be tolerant enough to understand that I am happy to listen to them if they are happy to listen to me? So I am going to Hell for rejecting their teachings but it is possible that they could go to the Basement for not listening to me. That is the reward for those that ignore the teachings of Lanky.