Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Paul is Still a Pompous Pot Head

Rom1:25-27- "They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. (26)Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for un-natural, (27) and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity."
So, only non-Christians are homosexuals? Interesting, because quite a few of my homosexual friends are Christian.... And those pagan women, he didn't even know what went on there, but it must have been bad, because they're pagan and stopped having sex with men. "I don't know what they do, but I'll just assume it's evil and condemn them."

Rom 1:28-32- "And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper. (29) They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips (30) and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents. (31) They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless. (32) Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them."
So...only people that don't accept God do these bad things. Well, I guess that settles that the Crusades, Inquisition, Auto-da-Fé, and the rape of American and African lands never happened, because Christians could have never done that. Only pagans are so ruthless. And back in Paul's day, I'm sure not one single Christian did anything he described here.

Rom 2:1- This whole chapter is about not judging people because you yourself will be judged. And he then goes on, practically for the entirety of his writings, judging everybody else. I want to know what he did. I want to know where the skeleton in his closet is and how many of them there are.

Rom 2:14- "For when the Gentiles do not have the law by nature...."
Oh, right, I forgot. Silly me. Gentiles are lawless. Duh. Wait...wasn't there some famous guy called Hammurabi and didn't he have some tablets with laws in every town in his empire? Maybe I was just dreaming that up. Oh well.

Rom 3:8- "An why not say- as we are accused as some claim we say- that we should do evil that good may come of it? Their penalty is what they deserve."
Well thank Paul he put this in here for all those preachers that tell us natural disasters happen because of homosexuals. And doesn't this kind of go against that long spiel about how "lawless" non-Christians were? So...you can do evil things, as long as you think it will be for the better....Who's to say that those non-Christians don't live by that same decree? Oh, right. Paul.

Rom 6:9- "We know that Chirst, raised from the dead, dies no more; death no longer has power over him."
So what about all of those people that God (supposedly) raised from the dead before and after Jesus? Do they live forever too? What about Elijah, who didn't even have to die to go to heaven? He even went out in a better way than Jesus. He had a freaking chariot of fire! That's awesome! Jesus could have just said, "Well, I'm leaving now," and climbed up a hill and hid behind a rock until the apostles got bored and finally left the poor guy in solitude. Seriously, I don't think Jesus even went to the bathroom in private after he came back from wondering around in the desert.

Rom 6:19a- "I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your nature."
Wow, good thing Paul wasn't egotistic. I mean, only people that aren't completely full of themselves can say something like that.

Rom 7:3- "Consequently, while her husband is alive she will be called an adulteress if she consorts with another man. But if her husband dies she is free from that law, and she is not an adulteress if she consorts with another man."
Hooray for the self-proclaimed apostle of Jesus completely contradicting his leader's teachings once again! Really, Paul, you did a bang up job! Congrats.

Rom 7:23-25- "but I see in my members another principle at war with the law of my mind, taking me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. (24) Miserable on that I am! Who will deliver me from this mortal body? (25) Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I myself, with my mind, serve the law of God but, with my flesh, the law of sin."
Ah, so is this on skeleton uncovered? Mr. I-judge-everybody-who-judges-others admits to having little self control. Paul's a hypocrite! How cute! You'd think the guy would at least try to keep himself from doing the things he puts other people down for so publicly.

Rom 8:31-33- "What then shall we say to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (32) He who did not spare his own Song but handed him over for us all, how will he not also give us everything else along with him? (33) Who will bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who acquits us."
Does anyone else read this as a bit of an ego trip? So...having an ego is okay? I'm telling you, Paul would never do well as a politician.

Rom 9:22- "What if God, wishing to show his wrath and make known his power, has endured iwth much patience the vessels of wrath made for destruction?"
So God creates people for the sole purpose of showing off how pissed He can get? What a forgiving and loving God Paul keeps talking about...


Idiot.








When all is said and done and dead

No comments: