The Latest Bet

One day not so very long ago, Satan came unto God with a proposal.  A bet.

Satan's bet consisted of God allowing him to whisper into the ears of the clergy of the earth, from the local pastors up to the highest offices in organized Christendom, a message based in Pride and not in Love.   God will allow him, for the purposes of the bet,  to corrupt the hearts of these men (those which could be so corrupted, those weak with Pride) with thoughts of power and fame, and of course, sex and money.  Oh, and guilt and greed.  All of this will God allow Satan do to, in order to test the faith and character of the whole of His believers on Earth, in order to see if the faithful masses huddling in their churches will notice the often drastic changes in the Message, and rightly recognize that their own House has been corrupted by the very Father of Lies.  To determine whether the faithful will temper their love of God and belief in him, with the Divine Gifts of intelligence and perception; whether they love him with not only their hearts, but with their minds as well.

To see whether the strength of their Love for God is coupled with understanding of what that Love means. 

So of course, God allowed this Great Deception of Satan's to occur on Earth, confident in His belief (since He had to suspend His omniscience temporarily in order for Satan to bet with him; Satan is not stupid) that the faithful would fast perceive that the truth of God's love for His children had been perverted even unto the point where it was in actuality reversed and twisted to reflect Satanic and not Divine ideals.

Even unto the point where Hatred was portrayed as Love.   

God was very confident in His children. After all, it was a very blatant and obvious Test.  They'd passed worse ones before. God was very confident.  Even Jesus wanted in. 

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So my children, this is the reason that today, sadness reigns in Heaven, and both God and Jesus are weeping...  it being the first such bet God has ever lost. 

(Damned gambling habit!)

Now God has to wear a pink tutu in public.  Sad. 

But not as sad as what's left here on earth.

Satan's winnings.

Too bad God bet the House.

This Just In...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/opinion/sunday/homophobic-maybe-youre-gay.html

This just in...  surprising no one here.   (It doesn't surprise Eric because he doesn't believe it anyhow)

Nice to see it in the NYT though. 

You know, this isn't psychological mumbo-jumbo.   When one is aware that one is homosexually inclined, and one loathes and despises oneself for it and denies it to one's self as well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the natural inclination is to be *very* publicly against it.  

I'm just tired of everybody pretending these people aren't sick and that this isn't what's happening.  There's an awful lot of this sort of pathology on the right.  It explains a lot.   

"Blogger" Sucks Big Weenie

Yes, this 'blogger' space sucks.  200 comment limit, a load more button that doesn't work, and zero customer support.

So here it is again, room for 200 more.  I'll answer Eric's last post here:


Bad doubts come from pride, or from laziness, while good doubts come from a sincere effort to understand or to seek solutions to one's problems.
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Bad doubts? That come from pride?

Pride doesn't cause doubt, you ninny. Pride causes blind belief. Doubt comes from the recognition that all is not right in the religion, that it is not logically consistent, truthful, or indeed, even probable.. And that's always good doubt. Doubts are never bad. One either realizes they were without basis, or that they were. Either way, the truth is found.

To an idiot in a dress, er, a priest, all doubts of faith, are from pride, because to that idiot anyone that doubts the dogma does so in pride, 'thinking they know better than me and the whole church, pfft!' Unless they're silly tame doubts about fine points of the religion, doubts that do not endanger the faith (blind belief) of the person.  Those are no doubt, your 'good doubts' there.  Doubts that do not lead to mental liberation, are your 'good' doubts.  

I find your answer offensive. Not because you try to offend. Because your belief system is offensive to all rational thinking beings.

Doscientos Mas...

You get the idea....

...And 200 more...

Self-explanatory.

Just another 200 comments...

A new post so that we can continue the conversation without all the hassle. 

(I will eventually get around to *writing* actual *new* posts, someday)

Humility

Aside from the obvious need to revise this blog every 200 comments, I also have a small thing to say.

Tonight I was pondering why I take Pliny seriously.

No, that's not meant the way it sounds.

When he speaks, I tend to take him, above many others, very seriously.

When I realized the reason why, it rather appalled me.  Or rather, my ego.  Which hey, is me.

I tend to listen to Pliny because every time he says something important to *anyone,* he always says it with an incredible amount of humility. 

That got me to thinking.

I preach a lot about humility, don't I?

I just never saw the ability of real humility to pierce barriers before.

Shit.


I need some work.

Okay, that's all for now.  Go on with the usual stuff.

Oh, and I'm sorry I tend to be a jerk sometimes.  I'll work on it.

Peace.

Oh, and Pboy, wtf is wrong with you?  Or is that me?  Anyhow, prodigal son, come home and I'll slay the fatted calf and you can have your sister if you can get her drunk enough.

(Just wanted to keep this Biblically accurate and all)  

Another new post, ho hum...

Must do this in order to continue discussion....  damned 200 comment glitch...

NEWer post!

This 200 comment thing is really annoying.

Da Noo Post

It's Da Noo Post...

Knock yourselves out... another 200 comments before I do this again.