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Trueblue
11-11-2007, 05:12 PM
I'm not just cussing. I want to discuss this man's personal revelation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlton_Pearson

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14337492/

Pearson: And you saw these African people—mostly women and children walking slowly back trying to come home. There was no light or life in their eyes. It was a horrible thing for me to see. Swollen bellies and skeletal bodies, emaciated... and then the babies looking at the mom and the mama looking out in space. It was sad. And I’m sitting there with my little fat-cheeked baby and my plateful of food, watching my big screen TV. A man of God, a preacher of the Gospel, and Evangelist, and I’m looking at those people assuming that they’re probably Muslim and going to Hell. “’Cause God wouldn’t do that to Christians,” I’m thinking...

Morrison: They deserve hell.

Pearson: They deserved hell.

And then, right at that moment, Carlton had his revelation.

Pearson: And I said, “God I don’t know how you’re gonna call yourself a loving God and allow those people to suffer so much and then just suck them into hell.” And I believe it was the Spirit of God in me saying, “Is that what you think we’re doing?”

Morrison: You heard this voice.

Pearson: Yes, sir. And I said, “That’s what I’ve been taught”

He talked back, he says, at that voice in his head.

Pearson: “God, I can’t I can’t save the whole world.” And that’s when I heard that voice say, “Precisely. That’s what we did. And if you’d tell them that they are redeemed, you wouldn’t create those kinds of problems. Can’t you see they’re already in Hell?”

Clear as a bell, says Carlton, he heard god telling him to preach this new message that hell is a place in life, and that after death. Everybody is redeemed. Everybody.

Oceanbreeze
11-11-2007, 05:36 PM
:sad :sad :sad :sad

Religion is a choice. I know many atheists and agnostics who have more ethics and morals than a holy roller. That line of thinking is just ridiculous.

issac the dragon
11-11-2007, 06:37 PM
There was an article in the NYTimes a while back that said agnostics and atheists were the only truly moral people in this country. I agree. I am one of them. My morals don't allow me to put them aside because I think God wants me to.

Kurtz
11-11-2007, 07:48 PM
I don't equate morality with religious views.
Damn good thang too coz I know some
religious folks who are actually moral.

Interestin' post, TB.

issac the dragon
11-11-2007, 10:15 PM
I know a few religious people who are very moral. But most of them are very much into practicing 'situational morality.' Almost all of them thought that it was alright with God that they had sex before marriage. After marriage, they decided that it hadn't been alright, but they asked for, and got forgiven. That is something an atheist can't do. If it is wrong, it is wrong.

Saguaro
11-11-2007, 10:19 PM
We have all served our time in hell, it's time we get some relief :D

sparks
11-11-2007, 10:38 PM
We have all served our time in hell, it's time we get some relief :D

Amen sista! :D

Kurtz
11-12-2007, 07:05 AM
I know a few religious people who are very moral. But most of them are very much into practicing 'situational morality.' Almost all of them thought that it was alright with God that they had sex before marriage. After marriage, they decided that it hadn't been alright, but they asked for, and got forgiven. That is something an atheist can't do. If it is wrong, it is wrong.

But is right and wrong black and white?

To me, Life is shades of grey, all on a continuum.

I'm always amazed at folks who say they could never kill 'n
they say never as tho no situation would ever drive them to kill.

Am I spozed to think they're moral?

Trueblue
11-12-2007, 05:29 PM
Is the idea that God loves us consistent with the idea that God would send people to hell who worshiped another deity?