Mishnah,
Most of the stuff posted here is negative, hateful, and blasphemous against God.
Most of the hateful stuff here is posted by the JWs present.
What exactly do you mean by "blasphemous against God"? You mean that some superstitions should not be criticized? Isn't worship of one particular deity blasphemous to another?
Even if many of you are right in saying that the JWs are wrong on many and important issues, that does not make you right.
Of course it does. If I say JWs are wrong about something, and they
are wrong, then it follows logically that I am correct about that. Duh!
So unless you are convinced that there is no biblical God you are facing serious trouble when you die or if the Lord comes during your lifetime. If you’re convinced there is no biblical God then I guess you’re okay if you end up being right.
Well, it was considered a valid test of divine power with Ba'al against Yahweh back then, so why not now? If any god wants to have his say about issues, he can. Send fire from heaven or whatever. Seems as people grow less superstitious, they see less evidence of the divine. Wonder why.
All you cowardly believers have left then are your thinly veiled death threats like what you wrote above. Pretty pathetic beings, you are.
In fact, it's not exactly as simple as you indicate. If you believe in the Christian God, you can be in big trouble if the Muslems are right, or perhaps old Ba'al was the right god anyway and comes to kill you for worshipping his old enemy. Even if the Christian God existed, there are thousands of ideas about how he should be worshipped, all contradictory. If the Catholics are right, you may be toasted because you are a Baptist and vice versa.
The problem you apostates face either way is this: You are taking one heck of a risk and the consequences for failure could not be greater.
As I pointed out above, the risk is for all intents and purposes the same for all people, because for every god or belief system you follow, there are millions you reject.
So why don't I worry? Because I take into consideration what you don't, namely the actual risks involved. The chance of any such vengeful old deity existing is as closely approximated to zero as you can possibly imagine. So the only one taking any chances is you, if you waste your life chasing a pipedream. It is, after all, a definite fact that there is a life before death, unless you're a fundie or a JW, that is.
- Jan
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Faith, n. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. [Ambrose Bierce, The Devil´s Dictionary, 1911]
