Posts Tagged ‘terrible things’

Who Hijacked Reality / #643 Why I continue to speak out…

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Journal Entry #643

April 18th, 2012

My personal belief on god is this and I have said it many different times in many different ways. “ I don’t know”.

Truly this should be the answer for all and to pretend that you do know and have special access to the all knowing and then act on a set of rules  from this all knowing  entity is simply insane but many do engage in this insanity.

I will focus on a discussion I had with a person who started a group called “Born Again” from India. It seems that India and Africa is where Christianity is growing unchecked and completely unbalanced and this is where it becomes dangerous.

I will let the discussion speak for itself as it will be my best evidence for those I believe are thinking clearly to see what I am presenting. The righteous mind is a dangerous mind.

I will post the link to their page where they have amassed big numbers and continue to grow.

9,230 members…

https://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/bornign

Born Again page on Face Book.

Now the person I am talking with is the founder of this group and actually invited me to join as they said so they could save me from my atheism and show all what devil atheism truly is. I like to play in the lions den and not preach to the choir so I accepted.

My original post and I even took out the swearing for them;

Gary David Currie

 I don’t know why but I get so mad and frustrated at how we treat each other but I do. There is no need for any of the terrible things we do to each other. I get so disgusted at humanity. We sit back and do nothing while so many suffer. What a pathetic species we are because we know better and do nothing. We continually hurt those we love and
ignore those we care nothing for.

We squabble over politics, religion and money, we engage in pathetic drama and self pity when all we have to do is just treat each other good and all this will not matter.

I am so frustrated…….Our apathy will be our undoing……

Jawahar Peter ……….when people deny their creator they become curse to other fellow humans. but they never repent of their atheism.

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Gary David Currie……….. Nice attitude. Sad for a god to be this way. By the way sounds like I care about humanity more than you do as you only care about your god. I am a human being first so quit with all this atheist labeling. There are no sides here. I actually thought you cared about your fellow man.

Jawahar Peter ….by acting kind hearted atheist, you create so many other atheists like you who can’t team up JESUS lovers. so many Islamic terrorists don’t allow Christian aid workers to reach fellow humans. u American atheists by your foolish ideology deny JESUS love on cross and resurrection to encourage Russian atheist leaders
to support Muslim terrorists.

Jawahar Peter … instead of criticising genuine love of JESUS and genuine Born again believers you can 1. believe in Lord Jesus and be Born Again 2. help us to criticise false infiltrated Satan agents like Benny Hinn Todd Bently who like parasites eat Christian aid money. then i can agree u are real human with kind heart ,until that time u are a hypocrite justifying your atheism which indirectly creating suffering for starvation deaths in Africa and elsewhere.

Gary David Currie……Jawahar Peter you know nothing about me. Ask Bappa Mukherjee who I am. I am not even American…You condemn me so easily..

Jawahar Peter  …you are not yet Born Again, that’s for sure. John2:25 JESUS did not need anyone to testify about man, for Jesus knew what was in man. it doesn’t matter u are American or not. you are human atheist denying Gods love on the cross thus dead in sin and are deceived by Satan. I pity u more than those starving in skin and bones. Many Born Agains were persecuted with hunger and perished in flesh but they are rich in Spirit. But u deny spirit and I pity u. but my prayer is u must be Born Again and be
our brother and co worker of Lord Jesus Holy Spirit to eradicate/minimise human suffering. if u don’t join Gods plans get delayed.

Gary David Currie….. See wrong again I did that years ago. Too many assumptions my friend..You think you are so righteous in you preaching and condemning others if you are what it means to be a Christian no thanks…

Jawahar Peter  …… Gary I could be wrong, its possible i am self righteous. but why don’t you become better than me by accepting Jesus as your Lord and saviour and then help so many starving people? Why you wanted to remain as a branded atheist and still wanted to appear good/righteous to others by posting about starvation deaths and thus appear as” LAST prostitutes and tax collectors and atheists are better than FIRST Pharisees and scribes “

Derek William Helberg …..Jawahar, have you not let the Spirit of our Lord guide you? Paul clearly writes in 1 Corintians 5: 11-13 for us not to judge those outside of
christianity. Matthew 10:14 and Mark 6: 11 tells us to dust off our shoes and walk away from those who do not welcome you, or listen to your words.

Gary David Currie  ….. Jawahar Peter you branded me an atheist as if it is some sort of disease. You cannot change me as I cannot change you so accept me where I am and see the good in me as I try to with you. Remember you asked me into this group I did not ask to join. I am a human being first and foremost and when it comes to Jesus or god my answer is simple ” I don’t know”. If you think you know then good for you but stop acting like the devil you think I am and telling me how right you are and how wrong I am. To be honest I am more like Jesus then you have ever shown you are.. Just stop all this judging nonsense.

Jawahar Peter…… you yourself told that you were an atheist. But Jesus paid the price on the cross or atheists also. I was also a foolish atheist for some time in my life. But I
confessed my sin and accepted Jesus as my Lord.

Jawahar Peter ….. its true Gary I invited you, so that me an ex-atheist can help a friend to come out of atheism. if u don’t like me or this group u are welcome to unjoin the group.

Gary David Currie …. Yes I am an atheist but only because I have no good reason to believe in god but that is my choice.. Like I said I concentrate on the good in someone not what you disagree with. Jawahar Peter you called me the devil and labeled me evil. What right do you have to do this. I fight for the rights of all every day. I look for the good in all and I champion the truth so how does this make me the devil.

Who are you to judge me? Leave this to your god and he and I will take care of our business… Like I said you know very little about me.

Gary David Currie…… If you don’t like me in this group you are welcome to delete me. Who do you think you are telling me that you are right and I am wrong? Let god do this not you…You job is not his job..

Gary David Currie…. By the way you missed the entire message of my post here in the beginning…So what does this say about you. Is this not common ground for us to work from?

Jawahar Peter…….. JESUS alone can be our common ground. We must be Born again. let the dead bury their starving dead but we must raise the spiritual dead atheists back to life with resurrection power

Jawahar Peter ….my privilege being Born Again is I am Gods co-worker and I am His child.

Jawahar Peter…. me missing your message is of not much importance compared to you missing JESUS.

and this says it all

Jawahar Peter …those who sit back and don’t worry about the suffering of Lord Jesus on the cross are of more cruel in heart than those who do lip service for African starving deaths.

Gary David Currie …. Actually I am professing the message of Jesus and you don’t even see it which is the sad part. The only thing we disagree on is the supernatural stuff. You are so wrapped up in your beliefs you cannot see beyond them in any way..

Jawahar Peter….. u believe a pseudo-Jesus ,not Born of Virgin, not suffered on cross and hence not resurrected. being an atheist for now you have all the beliefs of new age, Hindu, Islam, Buddhist assumptions. but to be our friend You must consider the Jesus who suffered on cross for your , mine and all humanity sin and rose again from
death. without that foundation your claim to further Jesus message is invalid.

Gary David Currie… sorry that you friendship requires I bow to your ways. I give my friendship for other reasons.. Really sad what you profess my friend and not Christ like at all..

Jawahar Peter ….apart from Christ all reasons are meaningless and temporary. we are eternal beings ,should talk eternal things. JESUS said we must be Born Again. why don’t u be more Christ like than me by being Born Again?

Gary David Currie….  Again you assume so much. I did this long ago when I was young. I have been baptized and according to the faith once done I am set for life. Also I know far more about your faith than you do I just chose to met others where they are at like Jesus would. You really are so wrapped up in what you believe you cannot see anything anyone else says. That is sad to me. This is what is wrong with Christianity today everything you are professing Jawahar Peter.. Very sad

This person is so deep in the chosen fantasy, so deluded that they cannot for a second even step outside of it to even listen to hear another. This is truly dangerous especially if they get a little power and influence behind them. This will lead to tragic consequences.

And this is an example of why I speak out to thwart the danger as best I can before it has tragic consequences. This is why we all must speak out.

Seek the truth always

Gary David Currie

Who Hijacked Reality / #169 The religious dilemma

Tuesday, August 24th, 2010

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Journal Entry # 169

August 24th, 2010

My goal is to build bridges between diversity. Unfortunately so many want to build walls. How does this help us? I realize that I cannot or will not change anyone they can only do that themselves. What I am trying to do is talk and question and get humanity to a point where we can focus on the best of what we have to offer not the worst.

My dilemma is this I see many good meaning people who believe in their god who are bound by the rules of their religion. While it is also my goal  to have humanity live by reason and science as well as dreaming and faith but not things that are harmful. When you are bound by the rules of your god you must follow the holy book and the holy books don’t always do the nice things you want them to. Ok let me be blunt there are very nasty ideals and laws in most holy books. So how do we reconcile this? If you are about love and caring then why do you need god to show this?

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHpiXmPWPwk&feature=player_embedded

Neighbourhood comes together and kicks out religious haters.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/residents-confront-church-group-praying-outside-gay-couples-home/article1683855/ 

In my opinion religion will cause good people to do things they would otherwise never consider. You can see this in the example of the above video. This is however tame to what can really happen. All you have to do is read the news any time and you will see the results of this concept.

It will justify people saying silly things like this;  WHOA!! God IS a true living God and the bible is the truth!! Enough said.

I was having a great conversation on religious ideals when this person jumped in with this comment.

When you deal with verses that promote terrible things like slavery, bigotry and war to say the least how can you reconcile this with the love that you feel your god represents?

2 Kings 2:23-24

23 From there Elisha went up to Bethel. As he was walking along the road, some youths came out of the town and jeered at him. “Go on up, you baldhead!” they said. “Go on up, you baldhead!” 24 He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the youths.

Exodus 2:11-12

 11 One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to where his own people were and watched them at their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people. 12 Glancing this way and that and seeing no one, he killed the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

Koran

2:190-193 Fight in the cause of God, those who fight you, but do not transgress limits; for God loveth not transgressors. And slay them wherever ye catch them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out: For tumult and oppression are worse than slaughter; But fight them not at the sacred Mosque unless they first fight you there; But if they fight you, Slay them. Such is the reward of those who suppress faith. But if they cease, God is Oft-forgiving, Most Merciful. And fight them on until there is no more tumult or oppression, and there prevail justice and faith in God; but if they cease, Let there be no hostility except to those who practise oppression.”

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Ok I have just put in a couple of versus but there are more than you want to know that deal with terrible things that most people in their right mind would not consider doing.

Here is what I don’t understand. If you are not going to follow the Holy book literally that means you are disobeying your god and rightly so. If you are willing to make your own moral decisions by doing this then why not take that leap and realize that your god is not a god and is not necessary. Which means he is probably not real? I get it then you will have no wonderful place to go when you die but that is probably the truth whether you like it or not.

Seek the truth always

Gary David Currie

Who Hijacked Reality / #24 500 Dead Today.

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

 

 

 

Journal Entry # 24

March 9th, 2010

March 8th, 2010 news report, 500 butchered in Nigerian killing fields.  This apparently the worst day in the ongoing conflict that has killed so many. The conflict is between the Muslims in the north and the Christians in the south.

500 butchered in Nigeria killing fields

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 A boy sits crying

with his mother

 at a funeral

 

 

Dozens of bodies lined the dusty streets of three Christian villages in northern Nigeria yesterday. Other victims of Sunday morning’s Muslim rampage were jammed into a local morgue, the limbs of slaughtered children tangled in a grotesque mess.

One toddler appeared fixed in the protective but hopeless embrace of an older child, possibly his brother. Another had been scalped. Most had severed hands and feet.

Officials estimate that 500 people were massacred in night-time raids by Muslim gangs near Jos, the city that bestrides Nigeria’s Christian-Muslim fault line.

Local journalists and civil rights organisations who toured the area yesterday told The Times they had counted at least 200 victims shot and hacked to death in apparent revenge for sectarian violence in January that claimed about 300 lives from the two communities. Mark Lipdo, a co-ordinator for the Stefanos Foundation, a Christian aid group, confirmed at least 93 dead in one village. “But there are corpses charred beyond recognition,” he said.

You can find this and similar stories throughout the internet. This apparently started out as a tribal conflict with land disputes but quickly became a religious conflict.

This story inspired me to write a song today called 500 dead today. I cannot literally go over to Nigeria and put a stop to this so I will do what I can. I would not want to be in the middle of this madness. What posse’s people to do these terrible things to each other? How can you possibly live with yourself after butchering another human being especially a child hacking off their hands and feet? I cannot imagine doing that to another human being. What can you possibly use to justify this? The only thing could be religion. I am disgusted with us as a species for allowing this type of behavior to continue.  This is the type of incident that absolutely proves my point that believing in lies leads to negative consequences. I keep hearing that Islam and Christianity are religions of peace. Where is the peace here? We must stop this senseless behavior as a species and the only way we stand a chance of doing this is to stop believing in lies and to start acknowledging the truth. Each religions holy book is the word of god and must be followed without question. To not do this is to basically follow a different version of that religion. Each holy book condones violence as a means to fulfill commands. Look I don’t care  how you try and turn the statements in the books around they absolutely condone violence and the end result of this is what happened in Nigeria and happens daily in many other parts of the world.

This just has to stop. People have to give up their religious agendas and truly move towards peace. It really is that simple. Unfortunately the answer I would eventually get is to kill me because I oppose or I have insulted their religion. It is amazing how many people feel that this is the answer and given the chance with no repercussions they would do this. When will we wake up and realize that things truly have to change but it has to be the right change. I have not seen one positive outcome that religion has been responsible for when it is allowed to dictate how communities or countries are governed. 

Seek the truth always

Gary David Currie