Before attacking me as a deluded theist, let me explain that I am in fact an atheist but have sympathy somewhat for theists.
I wrote the following down very quickly, purposely without thinking,
to make it irrational. It was an attempt to show a positive side to faith and that for particular individuals, perhaps it is a requirement. You make call them weak for such a requirement, but everyone has their security blankets.
I would like to hear comments, but not along the lines of "you've read too much Kierkegaard and Nietzsche" because I admit that recently I have been reading a
lot about the existentialists and consider myself a 'card-carrying' existentialist.
There is reason in the unreasonable you are about to read.
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quote:[1.1] God is freedom. God is possibility. God is life. To praise God is to praise freedom. To praise God is to price life itself.
[1.2] In you God only sees innocence. What is good but arbitrariness? What is evil but arbitrariness?
[1.3] Reason has its use, but it becomes a drawback when it spreads even to God. For to shackle God in reason is to shackle freedom; to shackle the passions.
[1.4] God is hard. To learn to love God is to fight God and finally accept God. To accept God is to accept and love life as it is. To accept God is to accept freedom and therefore total responsibility.
[1.5] To love God is to love your freedom and responsibility. You are born with certain talents. You are free to realize these talents or slip into idleness, therefore you are responsible for these talents.
[1.6] To love God is to love repetition!
[1.7] Let reason be of use and nothing else. To hell with reason for reasons sake! Let faith be of its use, too. Let your acceptance of faith be your first choice, your first act of freedom.
[1.8] You are within God but do not strive to become one with God’s will, for that will strip you of God’s greatest gift to your: your will!
[2.1] To the logician who refutes faith for being irrational, you might as well refute the passions too! For that is what faith is for: to strengthen the passions; to give one willpower to love life; for life is hard and will knock you down. Accept life and it will be heaven and burden, reject life and it will be hell and burden. Life is hard, it is the hardest thing you shall experience, to push through it with your passions makes you good in the eyes of God.
[2.2] The nothingness you shall seep into makes life all the more precious!
[2.3] God is purposefully irrational. To accept the irrational requires a leap, a struggle. To fight for the irrational strengthens the passions. The irrational is the passionate! Who in his right mind has gotten passionate over a matter of ‘fact’? Who in his right mind has become passionate over two plus two equals four?
[2.4] Look not out there, look within yourself.
[2.5] God cares not for the masses. What are the masses but individual collect? He is on a one to one bases with you. He cares only for you. For he cares for the unique.
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