Curse.

It seems indeed misfortune has once again fallen upon me; comments left by a Christian deviator. Three comments were left by this delusional soul, de-linked from the matrices of reality they roam:

It seems to me that if you are going to make such statements about Christianity, you should do your homework first. God made us perfect in the beginning; there was no death, no sin, and no suffering. He gave us free will, because he wanted someone to love him because they wanted to, not because they had to. When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, they brought sin and suffering and death into the world. God ( although you might refer to it as a “rule” told them not to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, because he wanted to protect them. Just like your parents might tell you that drinking bleach isn’t such a great idea, God told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit because it wasn’t a good idea. Some people might ask why god put the tree there if He knew it was going to happen. He put it there so we could choose.

Thus spoke the diseased; empty words meaning nothing were uttered, and by deaf ears they were rejected. It seems to me you have not done your homework, dear Christian Deviator; for as Ephesians 1:4-5 tells us, free will does not exist:

He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.

Deuteronomy 30:19:

I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Now, it’s true that on occasions the Bible does contradict itself on this matter and allude to free will existing, though to be honest those are few in comparison to the opposite. And God sure is one cruel old sick bastard, punishing the entirety of humanity forever because of humans giving in to the curse bestowed upon them by God; curiosity. Alas, he was not satisfied, more had to be said, commenting a photoshopped picture I posted it said:

That little cartoon says that God “tells us what to do”. This is a very narrow minded statement. God tells us to do certain things for our protection. People think Christianity is *a bunch of rules* but really its a a lot of promises.

Why yes Stutter-kun, I’ve never said Christianity was a “bunch of rules”. I have said it’s a bunch of inept tripe, however, which I maintain. But as with any so extensive a work, they have to say a few things that can be useful and bright, or just common sense; but most of it is just stupid, especially if you interpret it literally, which a surprising amount of people really do, regardless of what more progressive religionists claim.

Deuteronomy 22:5: The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.

God gives you a choice; Love or Suffer Eternally.

Related; also see this.

The poster of those comments also said;

Ha no freedom. Ya, thats a bunch of BS. And have you ever looked up the definition of religion?

on the “About” page, which I am not able to connect to anything said on the page. Also note that I do not believe in free will, nor do I believe in any supernatural diety.

Narcissus.

He defines a narcissistic culture as one in which every activity and relationship is defined by the hedonistic need to acquire the symbols of spiritual wealth, this becoming the only expression of rigid, yet covert, social hierarchies. It is a culture where liberalism only exists insofar as it serves a consumer society, and even art, sex and religion lose their liberating power.

In such a society of constant competition, there can be no allies, and little transparency. The threats to acquisitions of social symbols are so numerous, varied and frequently incomprehensible, that defensiveness, as well as competitiveness, becomes a way of life. Any real sense of community is undermined — or even destroyed — to be replaced by virtual equivalents that strive, unsuccessfully, to synthesize a sense of community. It can mean also many other things.

Democrazy.

Democracy is unstable as a political system as long as it remains a political system and nothing more, instead of being, as it should be, not only a form of government but a type of society, and a manner of life which is in harmony with that type. To make it a type of society requires an advance along two lines. It involves, in the first place, the resolute elimination of all forms of special privilege which favour some groups and depress other, whether their source be differences of environment, of education, or of pecuniary income. It involves, in the second place, the conversion of economic power, now often an irresponsible tyrant, into a servant of society, working within clearly defined limits and accountable for its actions to a public authority. –R.H. Tawney, Keeping Left (1950)

The morning sun scorches the dying bees; earthquake predictions are regularly ignored so as to avoid causing undue panic should the predictions be faulty – which they quite often are. Local television news report of the 7.9 M^w earthquake event as thought it was brought on by “climate change” and “global warming”; and at the same time the Myanmar junta is slow to respond to offers of help, scared as though they must be to appear weak and scared to accept help from people that just some months earlier called for their overthrow and prayed persistently for their deaths when the pompous monks demanded a resumption of fuel subsidies.

The Chinese government allows free market elements, yet now they are bad for doing so; the government was not firm enough when handling out construction contracts; was it not just following the recommendations of the IMF and World Bank (the scum of the world in my book, so to say) economists. It is their fault, their fault; when it happens to us it is by accident, when it happens to the ideological enemy, we are always quick to blame.

Light goes up.

The Soviets do what the U.S. does; when the U.S. or its allies do something, it is done for freedom, liberty and prosperity; the soviets do the same, and it is an act of dangerous aggression, a fascistic totalitarian act of despicable inhumanity. We will liberate you. Let you taste the air of freedom—the same system as before, we just changed the faces of the rulers and the empty words they spew.

What you are I was, what I am you will be.

It is double-think; not mere allegory, not mere criticism, it is vast and it is efficient, intelligent and deep, profound;

. . , the rulers of mankind . . . maintain side by side two standards of social ethics, without the risk of their colliding. Keeping one set of values for use, and another for display, they combine, without conscious insincerity, the moral satisfaction of idealistic principles with the material advantages of realistic practice.