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You can’t be a good believer unless you first discover what kind of atheist you would be. And while you’re at it, it’s a good idea to figure out how you would choose to live if you were an agnostic. Two A’s and an F — atheist, agnostic and faith.
Since none of us know for sure what’s going to happen after we suck our last, it’s a good idea to put greater value on your human life than you do your eternal life.
I know this statement would upset about ninety percent of the Christian community, but it doesn’t make it any less important to share.
I am a person of faith–not because I’m afraid of what might happen if I weren’t.
I don’t pursue devotion to God because I’m superstitious or want to cover all of my bases.
No, it’s because I have decided what life I would choose to honor if I were an atheist. So if there were no God, what would my three essentials be, determining my essence? I would have to:
- Learn to love people.
- Learn to respect my life and the value it has, both in limited time and in the distribution of the wealth of my gifts.
- Be merciful.
Likewise, if I believe there is some sort of God, but think He or She has taken a permanent vacation, rendering me an agnostic, what kind of journey would I choose?
- Learn to deal with people knowing that they never go away.
- Take care of myself, but also not come across as unfeeling to the needs of others.
- Learn the art of forgiveness.
So in like manner, if I’m going to be a believer in an Eternal Creator, what are the three things that define my trinity of precepts?
- I’m told that if I don’t love people, then my love for God is built on a false premise.
- I’m instructed that if I give, it shall be given unto me.
- I get mercy, released for my inadequacies, by the amount of mercy I give to others, and I am judged in like manner.
You see, when you look at it from that perspective, whether you’re Bill Maher, an atheist, or Ricky Gervais, who considers himself to bounce between agnostic and atheist, or Billy Graham, who is the face of the faith crowd–when it comes to human life, you’re left with the same basic alternatives.
I guess as long as you can escape the ridiculous traditions of religion, it might be nice to believe in God just in case the heaven thing turns out not to be hype.
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