I wrote this last year for the Lakeviewtimes and because it is still so relevant I am choosing to share it here.
A skeptic means: A person inclined to question or doubt all accepted opinions.
My definition is this: An arrogant, closed minded individual who always thinks he or she is right and everyone else is wrong.
The skeptic lives by their five senses only, what is the sixth sense? My definition is: It is faith, the ability to believe what you cannot see and as we know skeptics cannot believe what they cannot see.
There are many skeptics in the world. The reason I consider them to be arrogant is this:70 % of Americans believe in GOD, and skeptics are basically saying that 70% of all Americans are suffering from mass disillusion and they are the only ones who have it right. REALLY? Let me ask again REALLY? Wow, now that is hardcore arrogance. Lets take a look at some skeptics.
:You have the skeptic who does not believe that man has ever been to space or landed on the moon but yet they watch satellite T.V.
:You have the skeptics that do not believe in UFO’S or extraterrestrials even though retired military men and multitudes of people have shared their testimonies and experiences, not to mention all of the video evidence and pictures that are out there.
:You have skeptics that do not believe in ghosts even though there are countless videos and pictures and experiences. I myself have an authentic ghost picture taken at my home that has three apparitions and a dog in it, and just so the skeptic knows my photo has nothing to do with matrixing.
:You have the skeptic that does not believe in demonic spirits or possession even though the famous classic flick “The Exorcist” is based on a true story only it was a boy and not a girl.
All of these and more skeptics exist and I really do not care if you believe in these above mentioned things or not, Who I want to confront is the skeptics who says there is no GOD and not only that there is no GOD but the ones who insult people who believe in him calling them ignorant and delusional. I want to attack the skeptics that mock GOD and Jesus. The skeptics who actually sue people for carrying their Bible in public, such as buses. The ones who sue a school because the bus driver played praise and worship music which is positive lyrics regardless of your belief system. To the skeptic who has made such a stink that some cities banned crosses in cemeteries because and I quote “it offended the agnostic and atheist.” I have been hearing a lot of big talk for years about how there is no GOD and listening to redundant conversations about it, quietly I might add, now I have reached my breaking point where I am going to turn loose and rage and rant, where I am going to raise my voice and I do not give a flip if you don’t like it, or if you are offended because the truth is YOU make it your life’s ambition to be offended and create offense. This is written to the skeptics that considers themselves to be so educated and loves to disrespect people who choose to believe in a one and only true God and love to mock and laugh and even make fun of Jesus and GOD. It is one thing to not believe it is an entirely different matter when you actually mock him.
Before I get started I want to say to the skeptics that have been jaded because of your religious experiences I do understand. I was raised in the most stinkin religious church you ever wanted to see. I have seen it all:
False prophets claiming God talks to them everyday (this is still going on)
Burn your rock music because it is of the devil,
Playing music backwards to try and convince us of subliminal messages,
The constant fear based threat that the end of the world is coming every week,
The command to wear dresses, grow your hair out, no make-up
I know all to well of the endless list of (do not do’s) which was and is and will always be B.S!!!!!
There are more that I could add to this list, but you get the point.
None of what I mentioned had one thing to do with GOD or JESUS CHRIST but yet GOD is paying the price for religious hypocrites. It is like, you as a parent did your best to raise your kid right and they go out and kill someone and they arrest you for it, not blaming the kid, not making them take responsibility, but instead you get punished. I have many poems yelling on paper about the sad poor pathetic witness that most Christians have. Here are a few titles The BIBLE-BELT GOSSIPS, GET OFF YOUR HOLY BOX, A PHARISEES PRAYER, RELIGIOUS THIEVES, SPIRITUALLY ANESTHETIZED and I have more, all of these were written from my own life experiences with “the religious.” Even now I know Christians……That are still being false prophets spreading messages in Gods name all in an effort to control others lives, IT IS SICK! (mocking and perverting a true gift of the spirit)
I know Christians who are champion gossips and wind bags who LOVE THE SOUND OF THEIR OWN VOICES!
I know Christians who stand behind the pulpit and run down women preachers and even family members.
I know judgmental Christians that literally judge a book by its cover let me give you a literal example; I have a book called “Dead Traffic” it is straight horror but there are some Christians I’ve heard are looking at my book as evil based on the cover, (the cover is amazing by the way, perfect for the theme) mind you they have not read it, they do not know zip about it but they are standing in judgment. More than one I might add. Do I care? I answer with an astounding NO!!!!! I refuse to debate or argue with anyone over my books least of all a Christian. The book is the epic battle of good vs evil, but surface Christians only see what they want to see. It was not written to them or about them. This is sadly the product of living in a religious town and knowing Christians. They seem to think if it does not include a sermon then it is wrong and evil. God forbid should someone like horror that makes them weird according to Christians. Religious people love to set in judgment of others and give their opinions even Jesus put the Pharisees in their simple minded places many times over their judgmental attitudes and opinions. I lived in a community of hypocrites and champion Pharisees for 5 ½ years full up and on all sides of me. They inspired some of the best poems I have ever written (Thank You Pharisees). I have said all of this to make the point I do understand why some turn on God because of the sad representation, contradictions, and hypocrisies. BUT…..You can not use that as your excuse to continually disrespect GOD and call all Christians ignorant, stupid and delusional. Believe it or not some Christians truly are doing their best to serve God. No-one is perfect even Christians. They are human just as the men and women in the Bible were human beings with a flesh and emotions like everyone else. Lets look at some people from the Bible, and by the way these were not fictitious characters they were living breathing people who were also dysfunctional. This is a post that someone put on face-book and it is perfect to use in this article.
Jacob was a cheater
Peter had a bad temper
David had an affair
Noah was a drunk
Paul was a murderer
Gideon was insecure
Miriam was a gossiper
Martha was a worrier
Thomas was a doubter
Sarah was impatient
Elijah was moody
Mary Magdalene was a hooker
All of these people did great things for the kingdom. God chooses the weak and foolish things of the world to confound the wise, so there is hope for you and me. Jesus was called a friend of sinners. I love the lyrics of Scott Stapps (ex singer of Creed) song Jesus was a rock-star The lyric goes like this: “He drank with people we would just pass on by.”
Religion has gave the entirely wrong idea about him and YOUR lack of knowledge keeps the lies going!
My dear sweet Pawpaw was a believer, he was a kind hearted man and a no nonsense guy, if he did not experience GOD he never would have wasted his time on him. My Granny had a tender heart toward God. So, when you skeptics call Christians and lovers of Christ offensive names you are insulting my Pawpaw and Granny and this pisses me slap off!!!!!!! Sadly the world we live in today would have called my grandparents bigots too because they would never have supported gay marriage. Even though if a gay person came to them for help they would be the first to help that individual. If someone was mistreating a gay person they would be the first ones to defend them. Any one who prefers the natural order of things is labeled something and it sickens me!!!!! Anyone who has morals and values and sensibilities are the enemies today. Liberality rules today and there is chaos because of it. Honestly liberals are bratty children who want there way or no way. The attitude is don’t tell me anything, don’t correct me on anything agree with every moronic idea I have and we will be fine. Oh well I don’t want to get off track so I will move on. I do not even go to church and I cannot seem to escape Pharisees and hypocrites and for the last few years I cant seem to escape skeptics. If you want to go against anyone go against the religious Pharisees, pretenders and hypocrites and leave the rest alone and most important LEAVE GOD OUT OF IT!!!!!!!
The skeptics that infuriate me the most are the ones who are blatantly Biblically ignorant. I would never debate with you on the subject of neuron-science or physics, why? Because I do not know squat about those subjects. But we have multitudes of skeptics who know ZERO about the Bible. They know nothing about the old covenant, they know nothing about the new covenant, they know nothing about Jesus and who he was and what his views were. The proof that they know NOTHING is that their arguments are nothing more than childhood memories and regurgitated religion, and things that they heard in Sunday school. If…you knew anything about Jesus Christ and the New Testament you would know that he (JESUS) despised religion and religious attitudes. If you have never given God a chance, or you have never read the bible then blow it out your ass already! I am tired of hearing your lame, petty excuses and college puked theories!
To the skeptics that consider themselves to be “history buffs” because they went to college and suddenly they know it all, here is a crash course for you. The Bible is not a fairy-tale with fictitious characters created to control the world. Our forefathers believed in the Bible and a GOD. Here is a quote from Benjamin Franklin “A NATION OF WELL INFORMED MEN WHO HAVE BEEN TAUGHT TO KNOW AND PRIZE THE RIGHTS WHICH GOD HAS GIVEN THEM CANNOT BE ENSLAVED. IT IS IN THE REGION OF IGNORANCE THAT TYRANNY BEGINS.” Man his words are prophetic today!!!! There has been architectural and scientific discoveries that prove the Bible is 100% correct. Look it up. Scientists are converting their beliefs more and more because they know that there is something far greater than ourselves holding the universe together again look it up. They have traced Kings from Jesus day who made statements thankfully that still exist proclaiming him as the Christ and they were against Christians. They found the Dead seas scrolls in the 1940’s. The ark has been discovered through satellite images on Mt. Ararat right where the Bible says it ended up. They cannot reach it but the images are proof positive that a large boat is there. So educate yourself before you spew off the mouth.
It is fascinating to me how the skeptic has a hard-on for talking about and even arguing about a God that they do not even believe exists. I would never have discussions about Santa Clause and I definitely would not argue about him why? Because I do not believe he exists. You all are so silly, You cant believe that we were created by God but…You can believe we were a gas bubble that crawled up on a beach one day and we morphed into a human being, or you believe that we are an amoeba from a rock from mars, and the most popular is that we came from apes and monkeys. Really? You can believe these fantastical theories and you cannot embrace that we have a supreme creator. Even a skeptic has said that certain people are evil so where does evil come from?
Skeptics like to chalk things up to luck, chance and coincidence. Example A non-believer has a horrible wreck and the car is mangled and he comes out with only a scratch and someone will say you were lucky. NO that was the mercy of God. The skeptic would argue but they did not believe in God, the answer is that person had someone praying for them. All of you skeptics should sow your lips to the asses of every person who is keeping you covered. So many gamble and play with eternity and that is insane to me. I will share what a famous preacher said, “If I believe in God all of my life and come to the end of it and oops I find out there is no God I have no regrets I tried to live a good life, But…If you go through your whole life and choose not to believe in God and come to the end of it and oops there is God then you have eternity, time without end.” Your excuses and theories and degrees will not rescue you! Only Jesus will rescue you. I have heard skeptics say I don’t understand why such and such dies so young they were a good person I cant answer that but I do know that God has no obligation to people who choose to not believe in him hence what the Bible says, “The promises are for whosoever will.” It is and never will be about good works (that is religion). Jesus did away with works of the flesh (keeping laws and regulations) It is about relationship. Accepting him secures your eternity point blank period. There is no magic key or formula it is all about choice. I am not a preacher I am just bored with senseless people and tired worn out conversations with people who know nothing. This world is covered in mysteries and the unknown and we will never get all the answers but we have faith. The beast was unleashed so to speak and so I rage! I want to clarify I do not care what your belief system is, nor do I care about your lifestyle choices as long as it does not affect me and the ones I love but…the world today and all of its madness and dysfunctions are effecting me. The acceptance of everything insensible does effect me and countless others who are forced to deal with it. God forbid should we make sense and raise our voices about anything that means something we are labeled for it and that is weak and cowardly in my opinion. You are camouflaging and deflecting so YOU do not have to take the responsibility for anything that you do or say. I write this to defend a God that I believe in irregardless if I am a flesh mess sometimes, no title I am simply a believer. I have raged about many things since writing for this paper such as the drug pandemic, bullying, the media, lovers of hate and racism, the easily offended, decline of morals and values and the plain stupid. These are real world issues that need to be addressed. These and many more are ruining our world and now the skeptics are added to the long list of strife makers and peace stealers. Either you are on the side of making the world better or you are against her. I choose to make it better. My Pawpaw and Granny would be proud that I stood for something that they firmly believed in and that is good enough for me. I will conclude with some quotes………..
“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic — on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg — or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
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