If I read this email right, it seems this person is telling me that I am God:
Seriously – you were an Evangelical who led people to Christ ? Which Christ? Who is this Christ person ? You don’t know that the “Kingdom of God is within you” ?? Why were you looking in the heavens ? The only Hell is the one you create. The serpent is the Teacher – go re-read the Genesis. B’rsht (Story of your birth) – I don’t believe that you ever read this story. The Serpent is the Hindu/Buddhist Nagas (Hebrew Nachash) Don’t you know that you are the “I-Am” ?? You are leading many people away from knowledge. Read the Isha Upanishad. You will see, Open your mind.
It seems John C has a mystical twin in another religion!
A hindu who mistook you for a christian. Amusing.
The perils of popularity–nutjobs from all over sending you email telling you that You Don’t Know the Truth. Oh, and you’ve never really read Genesis–until you read it in HD!
Dang.
If you’re god (or God), can I have the winning lottery numbers? I’ve been telling all kinds of people about you…..leading them to the holy land of your blog….
I give you a much greater gift: I will keep you from winning the lottery, which will build your character. I give this to you as evidence of my godhood.
I will immediately sacrifice a lamb…chop…for your goodness….
I prefer steak! That’s it! I’m wiping out all of humanity!
Will some delicious seasoned fajita strips calm your wrath, O Lord?
no no no, remember, ” it’s all about the foreskin
http://unreasonablefaith.com/2009/05/13/its-all-about-the-foreskin/
I have hot dogs, potato salad, corn and homemade peach pie if that will calm our new deity.
God already says He prefers steak. Don’t provoke Him anymore, remember that humanity is at stake here.
But does he want cube steak? Or sirloin? Which one, O Lord?
No no no – you misunderstood – he meant “stake” as in “burned at! (It’s all in the “translation”)
Danweh wants a human sacrifice!
HERETIC!
Just slaughter the damn cow and prepare Him His food!
Who know He might repent.
Hot Dogs are to be eaten on buns, with No Condiments! Thus sayeth Hank. Through Karl, of course…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdCA5xAsw8I&feature=related
That video is totally awesome.
Tell him his unbelief of You is sin and command your first disciple to obey your bidding or You(I am) will send him to hell. Send him into all the world preaching your words and making disciples in every nation. Remind him not to forget the 10% tithe.
Hi God. I am pleased to meet you. I am sorry I was looking for you in the Sky, when obviously you are here with me on the internet. Maybe God could bless my blog with his presence. I know I have been writing in complete and total non belief of you. Please take pity upon my poor soul, Oh great God of the Al Gore Super Highway! lol Life is great.
Maybe you should consider changing Unreasonable Faith to Unreasonable Faith(s) now that you’ve garnered such a varied audience. I’m not sure he and I have all that much in common really, yea he’s “out there” like me but that’s where the similarities end. He’s in one galaxy, me another.
If you were the “I AM” then you would know who I AM, lol. And of course, you could tell yourself something about yourself that only You knew, then you would believe that You were…Him? I’m confused. I think I’ll just stick with the Truth, that being that God is love and Love…loves us.
Peace & Love to my “A” list friends,
John C
our problem is faith (sing.) of all kinds. If you have faith in something without having tested it at all, it opens up a whole can of worms.
Natural man can not fathom the means by which such a testing of faith (which is of an internal, unseen nature) may be tested, it is not by scientific (known) means. So, not comprehending this and not seeing how it may be, he quickly dismisses it and the man of faith as a childish folly not understanding that reason is not fit for the job, is not its function, that the testing itself is of another, unknown (to him) and not yet developed capacity.
Faith can absolutely be tested. I may not be able to measure your faith, but it is certainly detected and it seems like a big mellow cloud, if I had to sum it up. However positive your faith, whatever may or may not test it, such as crisis (a common “test” of “natural man’s” faith), you’re not incapable of making god up so you can believe in it, or believing in your vivid imaginations and warm warm experiences. There’s no reason to believe that you’re reasonable to do so. You may offer, dissect me, you will not see the faith there, and I believe that because it’s jelly in your skull, it looks like a human heart and a human brain down to the last cell of your blood and nerves.
Unreasonable Faith is singular because the act of faith in god cannot be reasoned, it’s unreasonable. It’s not that your faith is reasonable and dwade’s is unreasonable. You’re less offensive, you are not more reasonable, your faith is no more reasonable than those who are prone to argue and be pricks about their faith, or just don’t get what it is about faith like you do, or believe in a different book than you do. You think those other paths are false, and the people who believe in them are unreasonable, and I think I can presume you think those fools believe in their unreasonable stories and unreasonable versions of god, well they all are. The noun for that is “faith,” not faiths. This isn’t atheists and John C.
Thank you Kodie, I appreciate you. If the lens by which one “see’s” is severely distorted, yet it has been since he first saw through it so he thinks it to be true, then to that one…true it is.
Different religions pile different amounts of incredulity on the same enormous foundation of credulity.
Wow! hindu evangelism- that’s awesome!
Oh, I already knew you were Gawd. That nut job isn’t telling me anything new :-)
“Thou art god” – Michael Valentine Smith
Dude, Heinlein had it right! Bring on the free love!
I got really confused half way through that message. Which is impressive because it’s like 5 lines long. However, it can never hurt to read the Upanishad if only for the beautiful wordsmithing that occurs within them.
i dunno, it all sounds like B’rsht to me.
HAHAHA!
Gezundheit?
“The universe is infinitely wide,
And conquering Reason, if self-glorified,
Can nowhere move uncrossed by some new wall
Or gulf of mystery, which thou alone,
Imaginative Faith cans’t overleap,
In progress towards the fount of love.”
George Macdonald (1824-1905)
Oh LORD Florien, We’re not worthy… We’re not worthy… [repeat]
You must be a god if you understood that email. It made no more sense then what a few others say out here. I kind of got lost when he went from christian to hindu, if that is what he did.
Wait, isn’t this Rastafarianism? I’m so confused.
having read the Isha Upanishad, I have just absolutely no idea what this is on about…
This seems to be just five ways from wrong.
the thing is, you are God. so am i and so is everybody else. when will we finally agree on this and stop all of this fighting over things that don’t really matter?
I’m the captain of my ship, but I don’t have total control over the universe and everything that happens, or prescience, omniscience, or even knowledge of everything that’s happening in my apartment right now, nor a perfect memory. I don’t think I’m here for a reason, but that doesn’t mean I can’t set goals. I can’t think things true, I have to do them, and I’m not perfect, so I might mess it up or never get around to it. I have flaws, like procrastination and irritability. Someone or something else might mess it up, whether intentioned or without meaning to, like the bank, a busdriver, an illness or injury, a fire, someone who ran a red light while I was in the crosswalk, my neighbors, a human resources coordinator, my sister. What you’re saying is an exaggeration.
As the de facto most intelligent conscious entity in the known universe, the (admittedly facetious) argument could be made that we humans are indeed gods.
I don’t make that connection. It’s egotistical. Of course human progress and discovery is an amazing accomplishment or set of accomplishments on the global and historical scale, so you know, clap-clap-clap. We have done and continue to do great things, not just positive things, but huge, destructive things. Most of what we’ve done is small potatoes, relatively inconsequential. Our houses and our industries are larger than ants’ and bees’, but nowhere near as efficient or organized, we advance technologically, so what, and we are bloated with politics. This is what our reason gets us, inventing government and being disagreeable about the best way to govern. We give our families names and ritually pass the dead back to the earth. Great thinkers and doers, makers and if you want, you can call them angels for what they do – plain old caring individuals, the generous, the folks who are in your life or cross your path and make some difference to you. That’s not all there is to be proud of.
The animal behavior overtaken by reason tends to accentuate the animal behavior, the building of shelters, the making of families, the organization of tasks, and the distribution of resources, the territorial urges – most of our rational faculty regurgitates the story of humanity, most of our mental resources go into arguing about the petty details and trying to be better at this than animals through analysis and debate.
Knowledge doesn’t really get a lot of us anywhere, it just gives us things to talk about, entertainment for the intellectual, yes, life would be dull without thinking and talking and researching to satisfy mere curiosity. Opportunities to apply the knowledge is where reason actually slow things down, because we have to schedule meetings and draft timelines, apply for permits, bid for projects, create a final version of some slick marketing materials, then have it bound, curry favor with investors, hire a team, sort things out with the union, invite lawyers into the process, give the team nametags, have a few meetings on why the nametags should be clip-on and not pin-through, make sure the really important people get that $3 retractable carabiner, and hot lattés, and hire someone whose only job is keeping tabs on the last detail. Meanwhile, the goal is less important than the social contact, that terrific bond of a team ::cough:: I mean, the ability to sniff out important people to make a good impression on, and the true benefit of being able to add this job to your curriculum vita. There’s also the socially obvious question – did the completion of this project accomplish anything besides passing money around?
Anyway, I don’t think the elephant is comparing himself or herself to other animals, that’s an anthropomorphic selection. Elephants are awesome, because I find them more interesting than snakes. I feel closer to the elephants than the wolves. They probably don’t talk about what books they’re reading or arguing about whether poaching should be against the law. “Well of course poaching should be illegal, there aren’t that many of us left.” – “No, man, you are just slow. We’re large, we can figure it out without bureaucracy and red tape.” Neither do snakes or wolves.
While I was writing, a bird just flew up to my window and latched on the screen, and then he sat on the sill outside and ate a bug. That’s what we do. I could be curious what kind of bird it is, but what difference would it make? Is it the one that sounds like a police whistle at 3:30 in the morning, then I’m not that thrilled. If not for reason, religion would be unnecessary – we ask why and we look for or make up reasons. We know we are special, so that must mean that god had a purpose (that’s one of the results of our ability to reason, not a direct counter-example just for failing to go the distance). If reason the unique talent that we have, I don’t see “god” there, mostly ego, anthropomorphic preference and glorification of our abilities.
Ha ha wow… what part of “admittedly facetious” don’t you understand, dude?
I tried a shorter answer but I just started elaborating for no reason after the 2nd sentence. It’s about futility, and it is an illustration of futility, which demonstrates that I’m human, abiding human nature, not god. If I try to imagine there is a god, it’s difficult to determine whether he would be better at editing than I am. I don’t get out much. :)
Ah. Gotcha.
My actual position is that the only way in which any god exists is as a particular category of mythological character (and a poorly-defined category at that).
However, I fancy myself a kind of amateur philosopher, and as such I love contemplating “what ifs.” For example, what if we were to apply the appellation of “god” to a being that is known and proven to exist? All I’m saying is that if that were the case, we humans would collectively serve as the only viable candidate for that distinction.
Yes, He came in the flesh…kinda looked like you and I? God in the flesh has never been accepted.
Is your breath His breath? Is it possible that in Him we live and move and even have our very being? The quantum God??
Hey – Cool to see my email printed here.
The universe was created from a single point of Light. “That” contained everything. (Y-H-W-H I am “that” I am) We are all descended from that Light. Everyone. So we are ALL made of that same stuff. Sagan called it star dust. Whatever it is – it’s what you are made of. If there is an “I am”. You are made of the same stuff. So if there is an “I am” – you are also “that”.
Pass.
I’m made of snips and snails and puppy dog tails.