The Unitarian Skeptic

@HollandStrauss Can you re-add me 😊

Writing my book He Talks To Me, Too, was something that took a few weeks over Christmas 2012/2013. I hadn’t planned on writing it, but it just occurred to me to do so, and my journals I had kept ever since 1992 stood me in very good stead with the project. It actually opened the old wounds, and I embarked on a very dangerous spiritual path. Or at least I’ve since realized it wasn’t necessarily dangerous, but one that needed to happen to counteract the significant resentment that I felt, trying so hard to be good and having it essentially thrown back in my face. Perhaps my unconscious self wanted to experience the opposite, doing wrong but expecting to be forgiven due to the atonement of Jesus Christ, who supposedly died for our sins. My sins over the course of the next decade or more included blaspheming. I do wish this hadn’t happened, because neither God nor Jesus Christ did anything against me, but I had experienced such a slow-burning anger over the course of many years, and so I understand why it happened. Probably, anyone would have started blaspheming, and worse, had they been through what I had been from a religious standpoint. On the other hand, there are probably a few who would have handled the situation with far more grace and dignity. I look around, though, and considering the despair people suffer over problems far less serious than mine in my estimation (which is probably yet another sin I’ve committed), I don’t think the rest of the world is on this inestimably high level of spirituality while I’m part of the evil. When I say I blasphemed, I mean exactly that, and in the most horrible and vulgar ways. I don’t want to specify, since I don’t wish to put that ugliness in people’s heads, particularly since some readers will have a strong faith in God and are insulted/offended by any attack on Him. And especially when the attack involves cursing. Just assume that I’ve said, and especially thought, the most horrid things imaginable to a believer, and said them, and you will get an idea of how I’ve behaved over the past decade or so. I have absolutely no desire to pretend to be better than I am. I hate lying and if I pretended at all to be a good person, it would be the biggest lie ever. I have too much emotional baggage connected with religion to consider myself as good. And I know sincerely good people like my mother. I know that I’m nothing like them, unfortunately. But I at least wish to be authentic enough to not pretend to be better than I am. A lot of times people will tell you to have faith in God. They will say that He is perfect. However, what goes unnoticed a lot of times is in reality they are asking you to have faith in a particular human being. Sometimes it’s the person telling you that you should have faith in them (although they would deny this if you confronted them directly about it); at other times, they ask you to have faith in a leader or public person in whom they themselves have a lot of faith. If a religious leader in your particular organization communicates to you a belief, he is asking you to have faith in him. If God Himself hasn’t personally shared the belief or command with you, then it’s not about having faith in God; it’s actually about having faith in humankind. None of us has had a direct conversation with God. That’s not how faith works. I can accept that very easily. It makes instinctive sense. However, I reserve the right to react to a human’s belief with common sense and if I find that this human giving me advice is not making such sense, then I feel I have a duty to reject it. Even if he or she is supposedly saying it in the name of God. I also, at the same time, need to make sure that I am not rejecting the belief just because living according to that belief will mean that I need to change some of my sinful behaviour. It’s a fine line, but one that certainly needs to be followed. Be critical when thinking of others, and also be critical when thinking of yourself.

@HollandStrauss That is interesting you had a journal since 1992.

@HollandStrauss @JustinTrudeau 🤭🤭🤭

@MonotheistC @JustinTrudeau Then let's hear it when you do lol

If you don't favour .@JustinTrudeau as Canada's Prime Minister., then you don't understand how much he means to us, whom he defends against bullying and terrorism.

@HollandStrauss @JustinTrudeau I haven't disagreed in a bad way. I do agree on some stuff you say 🥹

@MonotheistC @JustinTrudeau Why do you never, ever agree with me? Ever?

@HollandStrauss @abduallah_amin What doesn't help, many people are brainwashed by the media who have chosen to believe in a Mythological Boogeyman and that is causing division.

@MonotheistC @abduallah_amin But some are more dangerous than others.

“O believers! Whoever among you abandons their faith, Allāh will replace them with others who love Him and are loved by Him...” the Qurʾān.

@HollandStrauss @abduallah_amin Race has nothing to do with it. Anyone of any nationality and skin colour can be dangerous. Many countries outside of England & USA have done terrible things. White people are not out to kill everyone. There are Arab, Black and Asian supremacists aswell.

@abduallah_amin Oh yes, Islam is sooo dangerous. You know who is really dangerous? White conservative Christians. They're often deadly. Someday if the world ever makes sense, white conservative men will be slaves to brown and black Muslims.

@DaleTuggy @nazam44 youtube.com/live/O0w6SB6ZL…

@harlan5kitten @OneGodPodcast @DaleTuggy The whole belief of James White is a mystery.

My response to the use of Hebrews 1 in the Tuggy/White debate and why the passage distinguishes Yahweh and Jesus, rather than collapses the two into a single being: youtu.be/YNyZrl4-2fM?si…

@UnitarianChrist I think every trinitarian fails to be honest. No matter who I ask or what denomination I read the theology from. None of them can master it 😄

I have said for decades now that I would be fearful to give a quiz, a test, at the vast majority of evangelical churches this coming Lord’s day, on the doctrine of the Trinity, for fear that probably 70 to 90% of the people who’ve actually made the effort to go to church would fail that quiz—they would fail that test—and would test positive for some kind of heresy. James R. White, “Is the Trinity Essential? And Much More,” Alpha and Omega Ministries, YouTube, February 11, 2020. #trinity #heresy #trinitarian #trinitarianism #jameswhite #christianity #church #bible #jesusisgod #jesusislord #christisking #unitarian

@emilykschrader I am saddened to hear the innocent people caught up in this from Hezbollah. Indian and Thai people were killed by their rockets. They need to be stopped as soon as possible. My prayers and thoughts with the innocent people killed in all sides & Israelis effected too.

Hezbollah rockets bombarding Israel today. This is where the money of the Iranian people is going. How sad. Thank god for the iron dome

@ATIGAMER6 @freemonotheist Never believed it and never will..you guys will believe anything.

@MonotheistC @freemonotheist Evolution is true, It's been proven multiple times and 98% of scientists believe evolution is true

deep

@ATIGAMER6 @freemonotheist Don't tell lies

Just in case anyone is having a problem with social media at the moment and panicking. gbnews.com/tech/facebook-…

@ATIGAMER6 @freemonotheist Evolution is false. Sorry to say @ATIGAMER6 . Try reading something other than Darwin or Richard Dawkins nonsense

@MonotheistC @freemonotheist Yeah No design

@abuhamz44 @YouTube Cool. 😁

@MonotheistC @YouTube We will talk about it later today Inshallaah

Is Jesus God? Hosted by Mustafa C & Nazam. youtube.com/live/WGOlCPl16… via @YouTube @MonotheistC