http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/ Enlightenment through common sense Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:36:35 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/comment-page-1/#comment-1201 Lawrence Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:17:20 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-1201 The whole constitution of human society exists for the express end, I say, of teaching the two truths by which man lives, Love to God and Love to Man. The love that enlarges not its borders, that is not ever spreading and including, and deepening, will contract, shrivel, decay, die. The man thinks his consciousness is himself; whereas his life consisteth in the inbreathing of God, and the consciousness of the universe of truth. To have himself, to know himself, to enjoy himself, he calls life; whereas, if he would forget himself, tenfold would be his life in God and his neighbours. The region of man’s life is a spiritual region. God, his friends, his neighbours, his brothers all, is the wide world in which alone his spirit can find room. Himself is his dungeon. If he feels it not now, he will yet feel it one day—feel it as a living soul would feel being prisoned in a dead body, wrapped in sevenfold cerements, and buried in a stone-ribbed vault within the last ripple of the sound of the chanting people in the church above. His life is not in knowing that he lives, but in loving all forms of life. The whole constitution of human society exists for the express end, I say, of teaching the two truths by which man lives, Love to God and Love to Man.
The love that enlarges not its borders, that is not ever spreading and including, and deepening, will contract, shrivel, decay, die.
The man thinks his consciousness is himself; whereas his life consisteth in the inbreathing of God, and the consciousness of the universe of truth. To have himself, to know himself, to enjoy himself, he calls life; whereas, if he would forget himself, tenfold would be his life in God and his neighbours. The region of man’s life is a spiritual region. God, his friends, his neighbours, his brothers all, is the wide world in which alone his spirit can find room. Himself is his dungeon. If he feels it not now, he will yet feel it one day—feel it as a living soul would feel being prisoned in a dead body, wrapped in sevenfold cerements, and buried in a stone-ribbed vault within the last ripple of the sound of the chanting people in the church above. His life is not in knowing that he lives, but in loving all forms of life.

]]> http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/comment-page-1/#comment-1088 Mim Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:13:38 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-1088 I know of a student doing a music degree that told their teacher they couldn't practice their instrument because it interfered with their relationship with God. A handy and versatile excuse. I know of a student doing a music degree that told their teacher they couldn’t practice their instrument because it interfered with their relationship with God. A handy and versatile excuse.

]]> http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/comment-page-1/#comment-1087 The Atheist Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:40:27 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-1087 That's certainly something that's crossed my mind, and I've said as much elsewhere on this blog. That's one of the reasons I found the article so refreshing. That’s certainly something that’s crossed my mind, and I’ve said as much elsewhere on this blog. That’s one of the reasons I found the article so refreshing.

]]> http://www.the-atheist.com/avoid-responsibility-by-wasting-time-with-jesus/comment-page-1/#comment-1085 Guy Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:47:41 +0000 http://www.the-atheist.com/?p=300#comment-1085 Isn't the whole point of being christian to avoid death and achieve everlasting life ? Only god offers this, not the people around you. So why bother with them ? Isn’t the whole point of being christian to avoid death and achieve everlasting life ? Only god offers this, not the people around you. So why bother with them ?

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