That's a really good explanation.

Very nicely said.

So God is like when you fall in love with your rapist!

So when they say we have a God-shaped hole in our heart, they really mean we have a rapist-shaped hole in our arse?

Or, if you are a Freudian, a penis-shaped hole!

In our vaginas!

Ergo - god = Sex.

I KNEW it!

Take down.

.

Do you respect your rapist..? i didn't think so..


I would wait until I fell in love to have sex if I were you, but what do I know??

Quit digging for the fools gold..

It's more like the Stockholm Syndrome. More gradual.

yea I defenently think I have that..

Today I was told that Jebus and his angels made the snow.
Said child is longing for it.

As am I.
The difference is, I don't see the lack of it as divine neglect.

Jebusus for the take down!

Man for the archbar!

What a match!

well in the hebrew bible the word isn't "fear" its "yare", which sort of means "to awe"... so you'd be right.

but i am not sure if this kind of semantical differences are releavent for people who grow up on the english spoken version of their religion. if all your childhood you hear "to fear god" and you know that word 'fear' by how it is used today, wouldn't the way you think about it (and thus what you believe) be built around that?

In my experience, people who grow up on the English spoken version are generally only presented with the verb to "love" God. If anything, it is more often "others" who should fear God, never the believer, which is an unhelpful viewpoint to be sure, but very different from fearing your own God.