To my mind, withdrawing from God's unaccountable, unconditional love - and it is our choice - is what makes life hell. I know my many atheist readers will object to this, so let me state it as my belief, not as some kind of empirical fact. And if you live a life like that, why would your eternal soul be any different? The whole notion of hell as some distant, future rapping on the knuckles if you fail to observe certain rules now can work as theology and as practice. But it makes God into a recognizably human authority figure. And God, whatever else God is, is not human.
We choose to accept God's love. And that choice affects us now - and after we die. Because in Christianity, unlike Buddhism, we remain ourselves for ever. - Andrew Sullivan
Oh how special. Sully agrees with the rest of the loons that atheists are living in their own personal hell because they're not deluding themselves like everyone else. It's the standard and base canard of the whack-a-loons which attempts to reassure themselves that they are the special and "chosen" ones.
See.. if you hold yourself out as somehow "superior" because you choose not to invest yourself in made up things, that really really irritates the people who do, and so they compensate by insisting that you're a horrible person that must be really immoral and unhappy. After all, what's the point of picking a version of God that you agree with and completely investing yourself in it if other people get to be smug and indignant and condescending towards you for such belief?
This blanket condemenation of non-believers is as central to religion as the concept of hell itself. After all, if religion were not to provide the "if you don't go along with it, you'll damn yourself for all eternity" threat, there would be no real reason to be completely immersed in the delusion.. right?
Sullivan truly exposes himself as a frightened little coward.. doesn't he? It's not enough to personally shove your head up Jesus' ass. People like him have to bolster their own smug superiority by slagging on people who have no time for all the nonsense in their own lives.
I still want to write my magnum opus on life and death, but when I start thinking about it, it makes my head hurt and I really don't want to confront the dilemma of living and not living. Sullivan alludes to the central problem that I doubt most people have really thought about.
Because in Christianity, unlike Buddhism, we remain ourselves for ever.
Is it only the Buddhists that recognize the problem with that? I know people are terrified that their identity will be lost when they die. I'm terrified that I will be trapped in myself "for ever". Read the Vampire Chronicles for a very detailed explanation of that problem.
I still don't consider myself an atheist, I'm still a Gorakian... and Gorak is simply the thing that spun everything in this universe into existence. I can't begin to fathom the nature of Gorak, and I have nothing but disdain for jackasses like Sullivan that think they have even the first notion of the nature of "God".. much less completely invest themselves in fake prophets of the fake god such as Jesus or Muhammad, piss be upon him.
It's okay for me to pity those that completely reorder their own identity out of fear of death.. but for them to claim that those that don't must be living in "hell" make them not just pitiful, but complete assholes that deserve to be ridiculed and shunned.
Andrew Sullivan is easily the most annoying fucker on the planet. Doug doesn't annoy me nearly as much, because Doug is just one of those crazy fringe loons that nobody takes seriously. Sullivan actually influences and enables the stupid. He reminds me of Oprah Winfrey, sans all the money. You know those people that watch Oprah every day.. and buy the books she recommends.. and do the bullshit rituals just because she does.. or goes out and gets the same exact dogs that Oprah has.. those lemmings living just to embrace the emo out of desperation and lack of any real self identity? Ya.. Sullivan is the political equivalent of that.. and it's the most annoying shit that he is actually on the teevee and sometimes referenced in the on-line political debate when he's just a total bottom bitch.
And I mean that literally as well as metaphorically. That's why he's HIV positive.. not that all "bottoms" are whiny little emo bitches.. but a lot of of them are.. and Sullivan is their king.
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And then he says something like this;
I have never experienced this kind of thing, and am glad to be reminded of it. There were times in the past when I even made an effort to walk near construction sites because of the hotness of some of the workers. For some reason, I was never harassed. Once, though, I got lucky (for the memoir one day, I suppose).
One of my favorite themes is that sex is the underlying motivation for everything that happens in the world. I don't say that as some moral condemnation, but rather just as a matter of fact.
What pisses me off is the the mental gymnastics that jackasses like Sullivan do when they go from claiming atheists are living in hell, then to the evils of torture, the awesomeness of freedom bombs, and then the dreamy wistfulness of trying to hook up with construction workers. What an infuriating little faggot. Imagine.. he thinks anybody would be interested in his "memoir". What has he ever done? Surely he must title the book, Douche - the political adventures of trying to get boned by hot soldiers.
Every time you see a picture of a guy posted on his blog, whether it's a US service member, or some foreign protester, they are always classically handsome.. because Sullivan really isn't drawn to the humanity of their story first, but rather he's fixating on his day-dreaming desire that the guy ram their monster cock up his ass.
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