tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post8120532600385505202..comments2024-03-19T09:47:02.249-05:00Comments on Say What?: It's Really Pointless It Seems But I TryKevin Gilmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07689287179985777963noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post-35116420291320337742018-03-10T21:05:23.913-06:002018-03-10T21:05:23.913-06:00Haha! Yeah, I noticed. But you're getting old ...Haha! Yeah, I noticed. But you're getting old so I let it slide. ;)Kevin Gilmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07689287179985777963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post-18274734298977096432018-03-10T20:59:30.934-06:002018-03-10T20:59:30.934-06:00I had to laugh at the "Incandescently" s...I had to laugh at the "Incandescently" spell check my browser made.David Bryan Gilmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08954058198438593014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post-35298596091970952352018-03-10T15:02:59.897-06:002018-03-10T15:02:59.897-06:00Thanks, John, for your comment. This one slipped b...Thanks, John, for your comment. This one slipped by unnoticed until now. <br /><br />Your being kicked out of your Southern Baptist church says more about them than it does about you. They would probably kick Jesus out as well for that matter. Perhaps they actually have. Kevin Gilmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07689287179985777963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post-49718576694664996732018-03-10T14:34:18.909-06:002018-03-10T14:34:18.909-06:00I always find it a curious thing that for as profo...I always find it a curious thing that for as profound a man as Jesus was in the world, it took men decades to sit down and collect their thoughts about him in writing. And they actually had scribes back then. That was their job! Something's not right with that. <br /><br />This blind acceptance thing is more and more concerning to me as I see how conservative media today has divided us and brainwashed such a large segment of our society to the point where Trump* is the one they rally behind. It is stunning the lengths that they will go to defend him and overlook his actions. Our minds are so easily manipulated if we're not astute enough to recognize that it's happening.Kevin Gilmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07689287179985777963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post-4359846565058738812018-03-10T11:55:44.922-06:002018-03-10T11:55:44.922-06:00I mentioned to you before that I too share some of...I mentioned to you before that I too share some of your doubts about the stories in both versions of the bible, old and new, as indeed they were written by ignorant men, ignorant by today's standards and as you suggest, repeating a story they have heard from other men and along the way those stories have more than likely changed depending on the views of the story teller.<br />Most people during those times could not read or write in any language and so any kind of fact checking is impossible.<br />Jesus was indeed a rebellious Jew and this ultimately lead to his death on the tree.<br />And much of what he preached in his day would be somewhat the same that we "snowflakes" espouse as the things we need to support. Not as any right winger says as he wraps himself in the flag and treats the second amendment like his true religion.<br />I see many facets of religious beliefs to have their good points. You can cherry pick those that support your views and skip those that run against the grain of your views. The old testament is full of those values and the men in those days were nothing more than people we might consider criminals by today's standards.<br />I'll sign off for now as I think you understand my take on things.<br />Incandescently it's been a while since I used the embedded a URL in a line of text so forgive me if I didn't do that in the last comment.<br />David Bryan Gilmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08954058198438593014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post-2111179868714551792018-03-09T19:36:48.584-06:002018-03-09T19:36:48.584-06:00Thank you. I'm not sure why I never published ...Thank you. I'm not sure why I never published this earlier. Perhaps I wanted to get back to it and discuss more of my conversation with my co-worker. In the end, he was very upset with me that I would dare to question scripture. He felt I had disrespected him and God for posing the questions I had. It's odd because all the while we're having our conversation I kept wondering what his faith would look like had he been born a Muslim. Would he have ever questioned it or would he have embraced it as he does Christianity? <br /><br />The co-opting of the Christian religion by conservatives and the Republican party has caused me to question everything. I've been one to do that for the longest time but never more so than now. If Christianity can be so thoroughly corrupted as our Americanized version of it most certainly is, who's to say that the message hasn't also been corrupted along the way, as in from the beginning by men with agendas? <br /><br />I'm a skeptical Christian these days -- one who is a lot less certain of things I used to never doubt. I believe in a higher power but I'm no longer of the opinion that unless you confess that Jesus is Lord, you're going to hell. I think that's such a narrow and small view of the God of the universe. <br /><br />My faith-life has been a journey and I expect it to continue to be as long as I'm alive, and I'm okay with that. <br /><br />Kevin Gilmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07689287179985777963noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post-79667366655465778152018-03-09T18:58:18.076-06:002018-03-09T18:58:18.076-06:00I spent half an hour writing and posting a well th...I spent half an hour writing and posting a well thought out comment and when I tried to post it after confirming I'm not a robot it disappeared.David Bryan Gilmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08954058198438593014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post-15304131996026163202018-03-09T18:23:35.134-06:002018-03-09T18:23:35.134-06:00I'm with you, my brother.
Of course, I've...I'm with you, my brother. <br />Of course, I've pretty much been kicked out of my Southern Baptist church, so that may not be a good thing.<br />I will say I'm pretty comfortable with my beliefs in Jesus and welcome your company as we walk this journey called life.John A Hillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07777330742400065045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1212890428051515494.post-12565882564535284542018-03-09T17:51:14.966-06:002018-03-09T17:51:14.966-06:00Well said and articulated Bro..
All the while I...Well said and articulated Bro..<br />All the while I'm thinking about this You Tube video I just watched about two men that were facing their impending deaths.<br />One a very faithful Jew and the other more than likely an agnostic unbeliever but expressing their thoughts through there words and music.<br />Here is the link: https://youtu.be/rkSj5Z7oVYI<br />And then there is the notion that "my" version of "christian" is the correct one and all others are a fractured and misled group.<br />The numbers vary but s website describes a possible 217 to 55,000 variations of the Christian faith. And you could say that they can't all be correct in their interpretation of their version of the writings decades and hundreds of years after the death of Jesus. Most were nothing more than letters written to a specific group of people to address problems within those groups.<br />Here is a link to that website; http://blogforthelordjesuscurrentevents.com/2012/03/29/how-many-christian-denominations-are-there/<br />When judge Roy Moore was running for the senate and was called out by many women for acting more or less as a pedophile all the while effective banging his Baptist bible trying to show his Christian beliefs along with riding in on a horse and packing a little revolver made him the best choice for that high office I finally spouted off about how someone I work with was similar. A staunch Baptist with a bible based extreme view on things and coming down on me for listening to New Age music as it's of the devil. Then realizing later that he has a huge collection of printed porn and spends a lot of times at the strip clubs when he was on the road. I mentioned this not as my own post on Facebook but in a conversation with someone and a friend read it and immediately unfriended me and blocked me. And I realize he thought I was talking about him. I wasn't, I was talking about my boss at the time. Crazy stuff. And while I know I'm no saint either, I don't try to force feed anyone my religious values or beliefs.David Bryan Gilmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08954058198438593014noreply@blogger.com