Sundays Are for Jesus… So Stop Having Fun

how the divine pen of Michel Nostradamus crushed the international atheist movement

http://dissidentphilosophy.lifediscussion.net/t1310-the-boobquake-911

for lies on top of lies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbmXpNEFipE

do you think you can threaten my right to FREE SPEECH?

what if I told you that I am not who you think I am….

Not Dennis Markuze – but a FAN!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvatDdOWcLw&lc

you’re not the center of the universe!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yRpSNIOwA4

a dishonest liar

I feel this kid’s pain. I definitely experienced this as a child.

“… and this is how atheists are created.”

Yer just an atheist cuz u want to disobey God!

(You know that’s how it will be quote-mined by some humorless fundamentalist.) 

I think this piece is satire. One tipoff is the mother’s inability in the market to explain why Sundays are special. Basically she’s inarticulate; she goes in circles saying Sundays are special because they’re special. Another odd part is where they say that heavenly father told Jesus to create the earth and day and night. This is not how the Bible says it happened.

Either that, or Poe’s law is in effect.

Is this a spoof video? It seems too terrible and transparent to be a video made by Christians for Christians, especially since the kid still didn’t understand it at the end. 

 “Basically she’s inarticulate; she goes in circles saying Sundays are special because they’re special”

Just like the Bible is true because the Bible says the Bible is true?  It’s not satire, it’s typical Christian “reasoning”. 

I was made to pray the “if I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take” crap.  Then, when I got old enough to really understand what said prayer meant, I was punished for not being able to sleep because I was afraid that if I did sleep I may die.  fun times.

When she said we do things on Sunday that we don’t do other days and we do things on other days that we don’t do on Sundays, I was thinking she and the mister were on a once-a-week schedule and she almost said it in front of the kid (in which case it’s a perfect day for him to get out and go to Funland). But the video was weird and edited weird so I don’t know what that abandoned “S” was about.

Atheism comes from selfishness. Everyone has a conscience, and no one wants to walk around with guilt pushing them down so rigorously that they cannot function. So in order to keep on living selfishly, they reinvent righteousness. If you believe in God, this is impossible. Many will say being an atheist is easier then being a Christian, I personally believe it must be extraordinarily difficult to get rid of that guilt without God. Being a Christian is tough but Christ provides an escape route from your guilt. He also feels that void of emptiness that everyone tries to fill with unholy things. You can keep trying to fill it up but the guilt will only continue to pull you down.

 What you are doing is playing a trick in your own mind. God doesn’t exist whether you believe in it or not. So whatever guilt you have that’s eased by Jesus Christ is some sort of, you know, like a spit valve on a horn. Atheism comes from realizing there’s no god, and you can sort your own feelings because that’s how the brain works. I don’t know what guilt you’re talking about though. You are making assumptions about atheism based on what you’re told, and if you have a build-up of guilt it’s because you believe in god and there’s a long list of ordinary things you know you’re not supposed to do just because god said not to, so you’re always feeling guilty. Even when you don’t do them, you feel guilty. Your religious beliefs are imposing unhealthy emotions on you by offering to release them magically. If you’ve really done something wrong, go apologize to the person you’ve wronged. Otherwise, your imaginary relief from Jesus of your guilt is not doing anyone any good, but it makes you feel better. You bought into a system that imposes guilt and relieves the same guilt making you dependent on it to get rid of uncomfortable feelings that it makes you have.

I don’t know what this selfishness is that you bring up either. I don’t believe in god because I have noticed that it is a human invention to explain things that may have no other explanation, and many things that do have rational explanations. Religion comes from fear that bad things will happen if you question or stop believing; that your guilt will have no release. Atheists don’t believe in god, it doesn’t mean they fill their “empty spaces” with unholy things, because there are no unholy things. There are unhealthy things, and some things have consequences in life, and some things only have consequences if you believe in hell. It’s not selfish at all and most of the atheists I know are not as selfish as most of the Christians I know. Being personally “special” to god or Jesus is selfish to start with, and most of the assertions derived from that notion are selfish, and most of the behaviors derived from those assertions are selfish.

 “… Christ provides an escape route from your guilt.”

Pretty much says it all. Give it to “God” and forget about getting off your ass and actually doing anything.

Where’s the morality in passing your feelings of guilt on to some supernatural whatsit? That’s just shirking your own responsibility.

Ethical atheists don’t have this problem. When we do something wrong, we try to make amends — and to make them directly with the people wronged whenever possible. That’s just simply being a responsible adult. You should try it some time.

Yeah, it seems like some weird kind of Poe, and then you get the kid not actually getting the lesson in the end? Is that an intentional screw up, or just an early cut and there’s a later scene where it all comes together? If it’s real, then it’s got to be the worst thing ever made to convince kids to keep the Sabbath in this way. It definitely makes a better case for lightening up.

Oh, that’s Mormon wording? That explains some of it. I thought it was just somebody’s really weird, lame way of trying to teach this to a toddler that they were still using on older kids.

“Heavenly Father” on its own is pretty common across Christian sects, but the way they fit it in grammatically in this video is pretty weird, and I think that’s the Mormon give away. “We lived with Heavenly Father” is not something you’re going to hear in a Baptist church.  Baptists, and other Christians, would say “Our Heavenly Father”.

Wow, you really don’t get it, do you.

You don’t understand Christianity very well if you don’t think I don’t care about anyone. You don’t think I apologize when I wrong someone? Let me assure you I do.

To what end? Are you actually interested in understanding how an atheist thinks, or what it really means to be an atheist, or do you just want to be goaded into more generalizations about how atheists are selfish, guilt ridden, and evil?

Oh, and before the christian trolls start screaming, “See!  See!  Atheism is nothing but rebellion and selfishness!”, I became an atheist not because of the restrictions religion put on my life but because of the mounting evidence that it was nothing but a crock of lies and stupid bullshit.  I have far better and more productive ways to spend my Saturdays and Sundays than listening to fairy tales, kneeling and talking to myself.

 ME TOO!!!!   Heavy sh!t to be a four year old and wondering if I was going to die in my sleep!   No wonder I had night terrors.

Also, after reciting that prayer I had to ask god to bless certain people and my mom would make me include people I didn’t want to have blessed.  I would pretend that I forgot.

I can laugh about that now.

Eh not my experience.
You sound deeply troubled, I advise you go see a therapist. Seriously!

I never said atheists were evil, but selfish and guilt ridden, of course you are. We all are! I still have guilt after I apologize to someone and ask for Gods forgiveness, don’t get me wrong. Gods forgiveness gives me piece of mind because I know what my reward is for being obedient. Maybe I should have explained it differently. The guilt is still there, but it doesn’t tear me apart like it might if I didn’t know I was forgiven. I know atheist think it’s a crock, and I guess I can understand why you might think so as well, but I know God is real. I feel his presence everyday. You can call me stupid, call me brainwashed, whatever term you’d like, but until you have had your heart convicted like I have you probably will never understand. I pray that one day you will.

There are many translations of the bible, and many misinterpreted parts of the bible. The only thing as a Christian that you need to truly believe is, Jesus Christ died for you. All sins through him will be forgiven. It is impossible for humans to not sin, therefore God gave us Christ. No matter what story in the bible that you think God is unrighteous or evil, there is a righteous reason for him doing those things. Believe it, or don’t, God also gave you free will.

Atheism comes from being unconvinced, not from selfishness. The stories in your favorite scripture have not “sold” me on their veracity. This has nothing to do with what behaviors I want to get away with. There are MANY stories around the world that I am suspicious of, and I withhold belief in ALL of them, until some evidence comes in that supports one over others.
　
When it comes to doing “wrong” and feeling “guilt”, atheists do right by following our Federal, state, and civil laws. If we break these laws, we ease our guilt by submitting to the punishments ascribed to these laws. No gods are necessary for any of this. The existing court system handles all this just fine. It’s not as if atheists are walking around with unaddressed guilt issues. We just don’t turn to the supernatural to handle them. We also have an “escape route” for our guilt, it’s just provided by the state.
　
It’s incredibly easy to assuage guilt without a god. If we do wrong, we pay the fine, or we do the time. We make amends. And then, our consciences are cleared. What else would be needed? If you do wrong, make it right! Why would this need to be a supernatural process?

If atheists simply want to be selfish and rebellious, then we would not stop at disobeying gods. We would also disobey all civil laws as well, so that we could maximize our rebelliousness. But we don’t do that. You don’t see atheists running around the country in a state of anarchy. We respect a well-organized and peaceful society, so we follow the laws that govern them. But there isn’t anything “selfish” about ignoring religious rules that have nothing to do with government.

Thanks Nathan for not making any sense.

 Why is it a big deal that Jesus died for me?  He was God and knew exactly where he was going to end up.  Jesus and God are one in the same right?  God=Jesus, Jesus=God, correct?

Do you actually believe that god, the creator of all reality and doer of all possible things, choose to take the extremely inefficient and downright confusing path of  birthing himself into mankind only to sacrifice himself to HIMSELF, just to absolve us of  “sins” he could’ve just maybe forgiven in the first place?

If there is other intelligent life in the universe, I sure hope he took a different approach in revealing himself to them.  Nothing but confusion down here.

Here is a link to help you with this question.
http://www.gotquestions.org/Jesus-know.html

I have had the same question myself in the past actually. This should either help you understand, or deny even more.

 I would be more apt to believe he was god’s son if god would have just forgone the whole 9 months of pregnancy thing and just zapped him into existence in front of a large audience. 

Besides being much more efficient, it would have been 100 times more convincing.

I guess I’m not understanding what you are questioning then? Are you suggesting that Jesus knew he was God, so him dying on the cross was a walk in the park? Did he not still have pain? Did he not still have suffering? Put yourself in his position, even if you were a God in heaven, on earth you are flesh. That pain was real even for him. We couldn’t possibly even fathom the amount of physical pain, but I’m sure the real pain was that his children would do such a cruel and hateful thing to him. I’m no expert on this, but it seems pretty clear to me, he was a very curagious man and an even more curagious God to put himself in the position. All the time knowing what would happen to himself, but maybe a small amount of hope that he could be wrong? I don’t know, deep thoughts.

Mathew 24:36 No one knows about the day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.

What bible are you reading? What book, what chapter and verse did you get your information from, I’d like to read it.

To be fair, the Bible does actually state in the NT that Jesus was involved in creation (cf. Colossians 1). This is of course a retroactive reading onto the Genesis creation account(s), but it is in fact a Christian idea, not merely a Mormon one.

This generation is describing the generation of the second coming of Christ, not the generation they were in at the current time. It is a common misinterpretation.