Come to church or burn in hell
Some Christians came to save me on Sunday. They came knocking on my door with horror stories of what was going to happen to me if I didn't declare that Jesus is Lord!They caught me at a bad time. I smelt of Saturday night's alcohol, my face was smeared with lip-gloss, body glitter and black eyeliner and I'd fallen asleep in a mini-dress so when I opened the door, I was exactly what they were looking for. Lucifer's assistant in training!
They said I would burn in hell for eternity if I didn't repent all of my sins, change my ways and start going to church. I needed to forget modern society's shameless pursuit of fashion statements, thirst for money, the next high and the devil's alcohol. I said "but have you tried a Zombie Killer cocktail, because if you had, you'd love it, maybe even serve it at church". They looked at me like I was filth.I asked the Christians if they knew of anyone who had gone to heaven or hell for that matter and they said I was being ridiculous and provocative. They both said the problem with me was that I didn't have faith and I ought to stop needing visual evidence for everything in my life. Apparently, I was looking for intelligent answers instead of just believing.
They left mumbling Lord Jesus Save Her when I said that I thought that the only reason why most people try to be good Christians is to get their reward in heaven. I said people should be good because they aspire to be good. I have a problem with people who are only good because they want to secure their place in the 'Kingdom of Heaven'.
posted by August Mayfield at
11:49
8 Comments:
I'm very suspicious of organised religion. I certainly believe that Man always needs something to belong to and Religion is just something to band people together like a social club.
My mum's a Christian and she never married my dad, she also smokes, drinks a lot of red wine saying its the blood of christ and lies like a thief!
I don't think you need church August, I just think you might need taming, thats all!
Tara, I love your mum... the blood of Christ! Hilarious.
August
Not all Christians are aresholes. Some of them are quite normal. This is what I've heard, I don't know any personally!
I'd do anything to get into Heaven. Anything! But does it exist? Thats the million dollar question. I guess having faith and being religious has to be a good thing if done in a good way with a clean heart.
SM
I am a Catholic so I don't know anything about the bible; but I was told as a kid that if you make the sign of the cross every time you pass a (Catholic) church you get 100 days indulgence from spending time in purgatory (the place Catholics go to repent of their earthly sins before they are allowed into heaven).
BTW: I am lapsed.
Rose
Did you really say all those things?? Hahaha, they are probably praying for you but to send you to hell hahaha. Where they Christians or Jehovah’s witnesses, I thought the latter were the ones that come knocking on your door on a Sunday morning. I had their visits where I used to live, and they came twice!!! I was surprised to see a middle age man and a 10 year old dressing in a suit during a Sunday morning, I don’t remember what they told me for I was sleeping and they woke me up, I remember that all I said was “Thank you but…I am an agnostic and I was sleeping” I think I should not have told them my religious point of view because maybe that was the reason why the showed up again.
I absolutely agree with you, we choose to be nice because we want to be, or because it is a matter of respect. I find many Christians to be honest believers (I did attend to a private Irish catholic school during my entire childhood and adolescence) but I found out that most of believers–including my mother- are just concerned about the reward…
Nietzsche describes faith as somebody with their eyes folded that is asked to declare the reality of something that should be there, but that they cannot see: they could uncover their eyes and see for themselves but they are not allowed to because those are the rules of the game (I think I read it on the his Anti-Christ).
I just looked up for the passage and found it (that is why I loooove the internet) here it is:
The pathetic thing that grows out of this condition is called faith: in other words, closing one's eyes upon one's self once for all, to avoid suffering the sight of incurable falsehood. People erect a concept of morality, of virtue, of holiness upon this false view of all things; they ground good conscience upon faulty vision; they argue that no other sort of vision has value any more, once they have made theirs sacrosanct with the names of "God," "salvation" and "eternity."
They came to talk to you about heaven, but instead they should you what hell's like.
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