Dear idea shopper,
Welcome to thought freedom with Jesus at the centre. Atheists laugh at you because they see your intellectual cage, they sense your mental resistance and so can run rings around you. They think they are smarter - higher IQ, let's explode that myth and keep Jesus. Come to the very friendly and welcoming idea supermarket that always honours Jesus and God (who is Love). Let's learn some mental games together that'll have you running rings around those who would destroy your mental framework just to prove an academic point (which I can show is incorrect anyway). We'll be gentle about it though because we're nice. :)
You are safe in the hands of Christ and He won't let go, so now you can roam new ideas knowing that HE will always bring you back to safety in His perfect Love. Shall we try some space alien ideas first?
Aisle One - software: The universe is a big computer program and we are no more than pixels. (Funny, right?) But folks believe this and we need to be kind. They need a story that takes them seriously and brings them back to Jesus - here goes.
God is a computer programmer, a human one, just way more advanced. He invented this world as easily as we make computer algorithms and do thought experiments. Though He could not find a way to get us the this point with less bloodshed, He knew we'd get to Heaven on Earth in time and so His only choice was to not create this Universe or Save Us as fast as He could. He is not bound by time or space, he can pause our "program" and think for as long as He needs. Saving us is as easy as we save documents or avatar skins. But none of that makes us any less real. We are alive and this world should be cared for as the miracle of life it is. For us to truly live He gave us His Love, and that is why we can't live without Love. He knew one day we'd be so lost that no-one would agree on "which God was real" even though there is only one God. The others are not Gods as they can't create, they only hack and destroy. If we are vulnerable they hack our minds encouraging negative thought patterns. He was Jesus and separate at the same time, and now with hugely diverse religions around the globe but many of them respecting Jesus, He is the key to spiritual harmony, that's why Jesus saves, everyone Loves Him.
Aisle Two - Razors, to be precise, William Occam's Razor - his principle : "the simplest solution is usually the best."
Now we explain what the soul is in two ways, one with God and the other without, this should be fun.
With God - The soul is a fragment of God's perfect Love and that is why we can't live without it. It anchors us to Him through Christ to ensure He can keep us from getting lost. To Live is to love. Without this notion all you succeed in doing is making matter more mysterious.
Without God - We don't know but we think it's something to do with the neurones in the brain. The brain is like a supercomputer, brilliant but isolated. So what we really mean by this, is that we don't believe in a soul. We think we are a wonderful accident of genetics and evolution. We know we need love but we don't think emotions are any more than feelings, like the smoke from an engine rather than fuel. We can't explain why you can't live without love other than using complex brain chemistry and psychiatry. We think God is a delusion. We think those who follow complexity are more intelligent than those who embrace more simple lives, we think people that are like us have better brains.
Result - a slam dunk for God. In fact most things are far more simple to explain with Him in the picture. Ready for aisle three? War games, let's kick some bad-guy butt! Boom!
Common misconception - Religion causes war so if we get rid of religion we can save the world with our intellectual superiority. Any number of religious wars and the current geopolitical climate will serve as "evidence" for this point.
The real reason for the link - We humans cannot live without a working mental framework otherwise we become mentally ill. Different religions threaten each other's frameworks and that includes atheism, so the godless aren't the solution but a huge part of the problem, they simultaneously threaten everyone else. We need to see how our concepts are aligned and stop the rhetoric. To truly have peace we need to align the concepts where we are the same and try to understand our differences in a more enlightened way.
Aisle Four - Ghosts and ghouls and things that go bump in the night!
Atheism - there are no ghosts or demons other than what man creates. Mental illness is a chemical imbalance nothing more, like a broken computer.
Spirituality - There are demons who refused a loving God and they troll our brains if we are vulnerable. But our human souls belong to our God who is Love because He made us and thus we are forever connected to Him and safe. Now, there's a happy ever after I can feel safe in and that does not mean it isn't true!
Oh, last aisle coming up, the Love aisle. Now lots of things here are free, not all, but you can only pick three, are you ready?
Aisle five - Love!!! Let's browse.
Candy hearts - five dollars.
Valentine teddy bear - ten dollars
Fresh flowers - ten dollars
A diamond ring - if you have to ask you can't afford it.
A kitten - thirty dollars.
A puppy - six hundred dollars.
A partner who loves you forever and never betrays you and forgives your mistakes - free
A best friend who really loves you even if you disagree on things from time to time - free
Perfect Love from Christ that will keep you in tip top shape - free
Now any three things, what do you want? Is it smart to want to max out on the best Love around? You bet! So don't let anyone say otherwise!
Welcome to thought freedom with Jesus at the centre. Atheists laugh at you because they see your intellectual cage, they sense your mental resistance and so can run rings around you. They think they are smarter - higher IQ, let's explode that myth and keep Jesus. Come to the very friendly and welcoming idea supermarket that always honours Jesus and God (who is Love). Let's learn some mental games together that'll have you running rings around those who would destroy your mental framework just to prove an academic point (which I can show is incorrect anyway). We'll be gentle about it though because we're nice. :)
You are safe in the hands of Christ and He won't let go, so now you can roam new ideas knowing that HE will always bring you back to safety in His perfect Love. Shall we try some space alien ideas first?
Aisle One - software: The universe is a big computer program and we are no more than pixels. (Funny, right?) But folks believe this and we need to be kind. They need a story that takes them seriously and brings them back to Jesus - here goes.
God is a computer programmer, a human one, just way more advanced. He invented this world as easily as we make computer algorithms and do thought experiments. Though He could not find a way to get us the this point with less bloodshed, He knew we'd get to Heaven on Earth in time and so His only choice was to not create this Universe or Save Us as fast as He could. He is not bound by time or space, he can pause our "program" and think for as long as He needs. Saving us is as easy as we save documents or avatar skins. But none of that makes us any less real. We are alive and this world should be cared for as the miracle of life it is. For us to truly live He gave us His Love, and that is why we can't live without Love. He knew one day we'd be so lost that no-one would agree on "which God was real" even though there is only one God. The others are not Gods as they can't create, they only hack and destroy. If we are vulnerable they hack our minds encouraging negative thought patterns. He was Jesus and separate at the same time, and now with hugely diverse religions around the globe but many of them respecting Jesus, He is the key to spiritual harmony, that's why Jesus saves, everyone Loves Him.
Aisle Two - Razors, to be precise, William Occam's Razor - his principle : "the simplest solution is usually the best."
Now we explain what the soul is in two ways, one with God and the other without, this should be fun.
With God - The soul is a fragment of God's perfect Love and that is why we can't live without it. It anchors us to Him through Christ to ensure He can keep us from getting lost. To Live is to love. Without this notion all you succeed in doing is making matter more mysterious.
Without God - We don't know but we think it's something to do with the neurones in the brain. The brain is like a supercomputer, brilliant but isolated. So what we really mean by this, is that we don't believe in a soul. We think we are a wonderful accident of genetics and evolution. We know we need love but we don't think emotions are any more than feelings, like the smoke from an engine rather than fuel. We can't explain why you can't live without love other than using complex brain chemistry and psychiatry. We think God is a delusion. We think those who follow complexity are more intelligent than those who embrace more simple lives, we think people that are like us have better brains.
Result - a slam dunk for God. In fact most things are far more simple to explain with Him in the picture. Ready for aisle three? War games, let's kick some bad-guy butt! Boom!
Common misconception - Religion causes war so if we get rid of religion we can save the world with our intellectual superiority. Any number of religious wars and the current geopolitical climate will serve as "evidence" for this point.
The real reason for the link - We humans cannot live without a working mental framework otherwise we become mentally ill. Different religions threaten each other's frameworks and that includes atheism, so the godless aren't the solution but a huge part of the problem, they simultaneously threaten everyone else. We need to see how our concepts are aligned and stop the rhetoric. To truly have peace we need to align the concepts where we are the same and try to understand our differences in a more enlightened way.
Aisle Four - Ghosts and ghouls and things that go bump in the night!
Atheism - there are no ghosts or demons other than what man creates. Mental illness is a chemical imbalance nothing more, like a broken computer.
Spirituality - There are demons who refused a loving God and they troll our brains if we are vulnerable. But our human souls belong to our God who is Love because He made us and thus we are forever connected to Him and safe. Now, there's a happy ever after I can feel safe in and that does not mean it isn't true!
Oh, last aisle coming up, the Love aisle. Now lots of things here are free, not all, but you can only pick three, are you ready?
Aisle five - Love!!! Let's browse.
Candy hearts - five dollars.
Valentine teddy bear - ten dollars
Fresh flowers - ten dollars
A diamond ring - if you have to ask you can't afford it.
A kitten - thirty dollars.
A puppy - six hundred dollars.
A partner who loves you forever and never betrays you and forgives your mistakes - free
A best friend who really loves you even if you disagree on things from time to time - free
Perfect Love from Christ that will keep you in tip top shape - free
Now any three things, what do you want? Is it smart to want to max out on the best Love around? You bet! So don't let anyone say otherwise!