The following was
posted on a Facebook page, “Atheism, Satanism, and Humanism vs.
Biblical Christianity”, by Penny Amanda Stone, who I have
mentioned before on this blog. The content of the picture, a quote
from Ezekiel, needs a response.
Read that through and
ask yourself this; why would a good, loving, compassionate person,
one who does all they can to help others and has never intentionally
done harm to anybody, require a new heart and mind? Are they not good
enough as they are, is their altruism and benevolent outlook
insufficient that they need to change?
Why the presumption of
a stubborn heart of stone? Does the good, loving, compassionate
person have a stubborn heart of stone purely because they are not a
believer in what is likely no more than an ex-Canaanite wargod who
has a history of directing and committing genocide?
What incentive is there
to exchange that good, loving, compassionate heart for an obedient
one? Is the obedient heart superior in any way? I see no reason to
think that would be the case, on the contrary I see the obedient
heart offered by God to merely be an exchange for a subservient
heart.
Why would a supposedly
perfect God require the contradictory narcissistic ego stroking that
is implied by our unquestioning obedience to him? Is this God so
fragile of ego that he would rather we kowtow to him, tugging our
forelocks like some Middle Ages serf addressing the Lord of the
Manor, than judge us on how we conduct ourselves towards our fellow
travellers through life?
When one reads that
quote from Ezekiel in the knowledge of what many Christians today
claim, that disbelief in God is a one way ticket to Hell, it throws
it into a whole new light. This incentive to accept God's offer of an
obedient (for which read subservient) heart is hardly benign. It is
no more peaceable than the incentives offered by a Mafia enforcer;
accept the offer or suffer the consequences. It is coercion, an offer
handed to you with the threat you must accept, it is the pernicious
cajoling of a poisonous doctrine.
It has no place in
civilised society.
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