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Originally Posted by Vfr  A Christian sent in a post to an atheist group I was on titled 'To All The God Haters' I think this is a misconception within the religious community that all atheists must be God haters. I am not going to claim that most atheist are God lovers, but many atheists were members of organized religions at some point in their lives and started to think for themselves and one day saw the light. One can put something down without turning to hate. Hate destroys one's peace and atheists are just as subject to peace disruption as the religious fellow when they live wrong. |
That has merit. The belief that people can be unforgiving has only to match to the willingness for people to be a little hurt by people leaving the congregation. Churches, much like business, rely on numbers. You in your seat in the pew are a number. 1-15 usually is the amount of people that can fit in a pew. The numbers increase with more children because your butt is smaller as your age decreases, sorry to all the members who are small by nature. My comment to church is that the teaching of faith and theology is only to cover for the fact that the decons stood at the corners of the pews and counted you pointing to each person in the pews and walking back to the other decons with the offering plates. The churches are well run businesses of ear-ticklers in order to welcome other people. This also gives rise to the ability for political leaders to visit these organizations in order to get in on the numbers-gig. The ability for a pastor or an assistant pastor to tell about events and successes of these events only adds to the excitement and involvement to micromanage their number counting process. Those events are well managed and play out as money spending routines. These are sometimes expensive and sometimes cheap, relying on the "plate" to pay for the services rendered.
The reason people in the church label us haters of the church is because the numbers are smaller now and the people that attend, pass on the "plate" and don't participate in the fellowship ministries. I believe that I am not a hater, because I want to hear about God in the services, yet I am attended to partitioned loads of problems that the minister has with the way that non-christian, non-number-believing-ministry-having, non-attenders playfully go throughout life without the God-blessed truth about God blessed-ness.
I also believe that I am a non-hater, because I seek the truth. The light. I seek that which is further evidence to the passion and drive that makes us human. That knowledge to not hesitate and makes the anger subside in men that fear others gathering knowledge and truth. This can only be gained outside of church, because once you are in the church the only thing that should be on the preacher's mind is that pending evidence that God exists but even so a manner of poetic justice. I think that I am able to follow the teachings of public instigation that school and related activities are therefore still alive in the willingness to non-religiously create a philosophy or -heterodox, not believing in dogma or accepted church beliefs. This in effect would allow for people to have the willingness to rely on the things that would teach us speculation, presumption, theory, rhetoric, commonplace ideals.