God: Pros vs Cons
Friday, June 5, 2009 - CHALLENGES
[CHALLENGE: LIFE’S BIG LISTS]
Life is often about weighing the pros and cons. Should I move? Pros: great weather, closer to family. Cons: have to buy a car, closer to family.
Such lists make everything easier to visualize. So let’s do the same thing with God.
Write your list of the pros and cons of God’s existence.
:: weighing up the pros and cons by @davidprecht
Pros :
Heaven
Seeing my loved ones who went before me.
Faith.
Cons:
Disappointment if god actually doesn't exsist.
PROS
Watches over me with my best interest in mind
CONS
Witnesses my every move, including my less than sterling moments
Pros: He has a plan and I everything will be ok.
Cons: I am just fxcked.
sorry for the language.
Pros: knowing it's going to be okay
Cons: worry that it's not
conclusion: don't worry
@ziggaroo eh kid that's not at all what i was saying. I believe faith is something that can save us from ourselves, but it's not an easy thing to maintain. To anyone who would say "prove there is a God" i would say "prove there isn't one". I'm not looking for salvation, i'm looking for piece of mind.
pros:
- cool things you can say, like, "hold you in the palm of his hand"
- a sense of meaning greater than yourself
- beautiful god-inspired art
- comfort that there is shelter from the storm and stuff
- knowing that it somebody loves you, like some sort of big crazy valentine in the sky
cons:
- ugly things you can say, like, "goddamn kids, damn them all to hell"
- a sense of worthlessness here on earth, because what is good at all must be transcendent
- bad god-inspired clothing
- feeling like you will constantly be judged by your beliefs
- makes humanity seem totally petty and useless
Pros:
having someone to back me up whether some else does or not
having someone to care for me and help without me noticing it.
getting to know him
living forever
knowing where we come from
Knowing who pulls the next Kleenex o.O (hahahahahahhahaha this is actually from a quote)
Cons:
trying to find him between all this religion crap
having people pretending to be good
mmmmmm people misjudging him because of imperfect man.
if there is a god, then yes, there is satan.
i dunno :D
Pros-
having a parent figure to lead you
feeling like everything will work itself out according to planned
being able to leave worries and cares on someone else's shoulders
Cons-
Guilt
Sometimes feeling there just isn't a right anwser
Holy wars
Anger when things don't work out the way you feel they should
Pressure to follow a higher being's plan despite personal desires that may deviate from that plan
Feeling like the world is just a giant reality show created for a higher being's entertainment
Televangelists
Touchy catholic priests
Mormons
Feeling like nobody's getting "the point" of any of it
Universal salvation for any who accept Jesus as their Lord and Saviour including murders, child molestors, rapists, tax collectors, telemarketers, and used car salesmen
Sucide cults
Those people who protest soldiers funerals and set up websites like godhatesamerica.com thankgodfordeadsoldiers.com thankgodfor911.com... and other thankgodforhorribleshit.com's
Feeling like maybe God would have a good reason to hate America
Mystical pacifer-like sayings that don't help in crisis like "God works in mysterious ways" and "God has a plan"
Overly forceful Bible thumping neanderthalls who look down on people who don't share the same views and refuse to listen to someone else's side of the story
-and-
Pretty much every single possible instance of "God please save me from your followers"
- LIFE's BIG QUESTIONS
- ATTACK A CHALLENGE
Pros:
meaning in the madness
order in the chaos
beauty in the brokenness
Cons:
paradox
mystery
uncertainty