Sorry all. Was busy with school and work. Here's part 2
Don't worry about my dad. He still believes in Christ, still does his prison fellowship and other 'pastoral' work (without a church).
Christians reading this must be thinking how come pastor so silly. Fired from church then don't believe in god, its a test from god, etc. He still does. i don't. Him being fired from church got me thinking. My cell group comforted me and tried to explain god's way. I wasnt satisfied. I look for my own answers and talk to like-minded friends.
Church is dirty. Its all about politics. They want to earn money. I'd rather put my money into charity. Churches money goes into buying big useless screen projectors, big cars for pastors (we have no car, my father takes bus to church), useless expensive music equipment. The better they market it, the more people they attract with their superb interior designs and paint jobs. Then they will start preaching on god, don't rob god etc. then go about collecting their tithes and offerings.
There are so much flaws with the bible itself. Preachers like to preach things that are easy to preach. But many things are left out of the bible. many questionable things about the bible. You can ask a christian so many questions about his faith but he will only answer those that he can. For example, i was reading in this folder that some one was asking why 6 days to create the earth? And someone's answer was it is a hebrew word for period or a length of time. Okay. Fair enough. Then they will answer the rest of their questions with Divine plan, god works in mysterious ways, etc. I used to believe that, but now i know they are all 'smoking' me.
Did you know that jesus christ might not have existed? Go research. The bible says that people came from all over galilee to hear him preach, and to let him cure their illnesses but yet there are no FIRST-HAND accounts of this. Such a massive crowd and no accounts of this? No writings on this? No artist or poets during their time wrote about this? This is just one theory. So many others. Christians say it is satan trying to fool us.
There's a documentary on youtube that suggest jesus might be a buddhist monk because so much of his teachings are similar to that of buddha and that the silkroad may be a place where merchants and scholars exchanged ideas and cook up this religion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YbUEZfJJaQ
Looking at the bible now as an atheist i began to see how absurd the bible is. Let me try to summarize the bible.
God creates man. Woman and man eats forbidden fruit cause god didnt want them to be smart. Punished FOREVER. (please note that this god is suppose to be omnipotent, the alpha and omega) Floods, diseases, plagues came onto those that didnt listen to him. Like some god throwing a tantrum. Here comes the new testament. Sent and tortured his son to die for us sinners who are sinners because our ancestors (adam and eve) ate the fruit. Hold on. You punish your own son for a mistake our ancestors did? Holding this grudge for so long? Sent jesus to show your love? You are god. So many other ways to do it and you come up with such immature acts? wow really?
As a teen(still christian) i always wondered what happens to other people of other faith. For example. A boy born into a muslim family is doomed for hell - In the eye of a christian. But this boy had no choice, born into a muslim family and his society is all pro-muslim, he is going to live and die as a muslim and our omnipotent god knows this. Another example. My grandma is a buddhist. she is the most loving and kind-hearted grandma ever. She is doomed for hell also for not believing in christ and doing charity work.
Sorry for long and messy story. so much to tell but cannot arrange the contents properly. i still got more to say but i think i am done for now. thanks for reading so far.