Happy Atheist-Destiny Lab

This is a rap song that was sent to me by a friend.  It will make some offended.  But the reality is that if God is not real, then why would we even care?  Why do good?  Why abide by law?  What is truth....who sets it, and what makes yours right for you?  How can your subjective truth be better than mine.  In that sense we are no better than the "animal kingdom."  What confuses me about unbelief, and I get it, is not the fact that people struggle with believing in the unseen....it is how people base a moral structure without God and TRUTH (personal wisdom, popular opinion? etc....  I thank God everyday that He opened my eyes, that I have purpose, and understanding.  I pray for God to open the eyes of the blind.  The greatest witness to God and His providence?  Look outside your window, or more simply look at yourself.  There is no way a bacteria mutated into a life form and created all this wonder.  Even my 10 year old daughter laughs at the notion of apes deciding one day to stand up and somehow develop language.  How do we lose our sense when we become "educated".  No wonder the devil is at work blinding "smart folk".  These lyrics cut a bit to the bone and absolute profound.- stu

WHAT EXACTLY WOULD YOU SAY IF YOUR CHILD LOOKED UP AT YOU
AND ASKED YOU ABOUT GOD AND IF HE EXISTS AND IF HE'S TRUE?
AND WONDERED WHAT WOULD HAPPEN WHEN SOMEONE DIES - IS THERE A HEAVEN?
AND WHAT ABOUT THAT MAN UPON THE CROSS - AM I FORGIVEN?
HOW EXACTLY WOULD YOU ANSWER THOSE HOPEFUL LITTLE EYES
WHEN YOU'RE COLLEGE EDUCATED AND CONVINCED IT'S ALL A LIE
SURE YOU WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG BUT THAT WAS THEN
YOU'RE ABOVE THOSE SIMPLE THOUGHTS NOW THE ONLY GOD YOU KNOW IS MAN
ARE YOU SADDENED AND ASHAMED TO TELL THIS LITTLE SOUL
THAT YOU DONT BELIEVE IN ANYTHING AND HAVE NO REASON AND NO HOPE
THERES NO HEAVEN AND NO MEANING THERES NO PURPOSE TO OUR LIVES
THAT YOU BELIEVE WERE JUST EVOLVED RANDOM MUTATIONS COME ALIVE
YOU'RE NO BETTER THAN AN INSECT SON AND WHEN YOU DIE THAT'S IT
IVE LEARNED THROUGH EDUCATION That GOOD AND BAD JUST DONT EXIST
IT'S ALL JUST EVOLUTION IT'S SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
AND WE CAN GET YOU A PRESCRIPTION WHEN YOUR LIFE BECOMES DEPRESSED
IM SORRY THAT IVE CRUMBLED ALL YOUR HOPES AND ALL YOUR DREAMS
BUT IT'S TIME YOU REALIZE THAT LIFES NOT WHAT IT SEEMS

ARE YOU LOST? ARE YOU ALONE? ARE YOU CONVINCED THAT LIFE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE?
HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT GOD EVEN EXISTS?
HAVE YOU REPLACED ALL THAT WAS REAL FOR A LIFE OF COUNTERFIETS?
AND CREATED YOUR OWN TRUTH A HAPPY ATHEIST

DO YOU REALIZE HOW YOUR ANSWERS COULD JUST SHATTER ALL THESE DREAMS IN EVERYTHING THAT EVER MATTERED TO THIS PRECIOUS LITTLE BEING WHO HAD BELIEF A CERTAIN PEACE AND HAD RECIEVED THAT INNER VOICE INSIDE HIS CONCSCIENCE AND HIS CONSCIESS MIND BELIEVED AND IT SICKENS YOU TO THINK CUZ YOU'VE DRIVEN BY YOUR EGO AND YOUR GREED AND HE SEES IT AND YOU DONT PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH AND YOUVE LOST YOUR DIGNITY and YOUVE SUCCEEDED IN DESTROYING ALL BELIEF AND DEFEATED ALL HIS REAL HOPES AND DREAMS
THEY MIGHT NEVER BE RETRIEVED AND THE FLAME WITHIN HIS HEART ALMOST COMPLETELY IS EXTINGUISED AND THE HOLES WITHIN HIS SOUL ARE FILLED WITH MIMICKS AND THE MESSAGE OF GODS GRACE WITHIN HIS MIND HAS BEEN DIMINISHED BECAUSE THE ANSWERS THAT YOU GAVE HIM TOOK A PIECE OF his EXISTENCE AND THE POWER OF YOUR WORDS WERE UNFORSEEN AND IN THAT
VERY MOMENT YOU DESTROYED THE VERY PURPOSE OF HIS BEING AND NOW HE'S LOST and he's ALONE AND CONVINCED THAT LIFE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE and
HE HAS FORGOTTEN THAT GOD EVEN EXISTS HE'S REPLACED ALL THAT WAS REAL FOR A LIFE OF COUNTERFIETS AND CREATED HIS OWN TRUTH AS A HAPPY ATHEIST

ARE YOU LOST? ARE YOU ALONE? ARE YOU CONVINCED THAT LIFE DOES NOT MAKE SENSE?

HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT GOD EVEN EXISTS?
HAVE YOU REPLACED ALL THAT WAS REAL FOR A LIFE OF COUNTERFIETS?
AND CREATED YOUR OWN TRUTH A HAPPY ATHEIST

The Wish Wand- Amazing Poem about Finality of Hell

                                                                          The Wish Wand
The dangers of wishing instead of knowing about your eternal destiny are real. In this poem I tried to imagine what would happen to me if I died and faced God with only wishes and had not asked Him to forgive my sins for Christ’s sake, and take me to heaven.

I had a little wish wand and waved it to and fro
Whenever thoughts turned heavenward
Or the other place you go.
I thought it safe to trust it
With my whole eternal soul,
So I wished the life I’d lived on earth
Would get me to my goal.
I wished that all would get to heaven
Whatever they believed,
That Buddha sat at God’s right hand,
That New Age be received.
I wished that Paul would change his mind,
That Jesus wasn’t right
Because he spoke of lostness and a
Dark eternal night;
About the way to heaven
One truth, one narrow gate, and
I was so broadminded that I wished away my fate!
So I waved my little wish wand
In the patient face of Him
Who met me at the gate of heaven and wouldn’t let me in.
I wrote to heaven’s congressman,
But he courteously replied that I should have
Left my wish wand at the feet of Him who died!
For wishes could not wish away a lifetime of rejection,
And wishes could not dress my soul
In heaven’s own perfection.
And wishes could not save me now for hell was so obscene,
That wishes there die ghastly deaths,
Strangled with a scream.
But I took my little wish wand
Into hell the day I died,
And I waved it at the serpent as he
Slithered to my side.
It was dark but I could see him
And all I knew was fear,
And no matter how I waved my wand
He wouldn’t disappear!
Oh I wish that I had wished aright;
I wished I lived again.
I wished I had a body that
Was whole, not racked with pain.
I wished I could remember
Something other than the dirt.
I wish I could forget my sin.
How every memory hurt!
Oh, I wished and wished and wished
That I could have another chance
To cast upon the crucified
A saving, helpless glance.
But the devil took my wish wand
And he laughed right in my face
And I went to live eternally in
Darkness and disgrace.
I never wished a wish again
I had no heart to try,
For hell is where hope ended,
And where all my wishes died!

 Jill Briscoe, Telling the Truth

Romney, Christian Republicans, Mormons and Jesus.....

Talking with Republican recently about the Romney campaign.  He knows that I communicate the reality that Romney is a professed Mormon.  I am not trying to make a huge point about it but just really trying to look at what that means to me.  The individual tried to tell me not to judge him, but i guess we all have to judge in some extent of who we vote for.  Obamacare?  Trillions deficit?  Maybe not....but as a believer I am not trying to point out that mormonism simply is now all of a sudden a viable offshoot of Christianity now that there are no evangelicals running.  I am amazed at the depth of Christians faith when their pocketbook could be affected.  Wow.  Last time I checked, Mormanism is not even close to being an offshoot of the Divine ONE TRUE WAY.  Billy Graham it is said has already removed Mormonism from their list of cults after meeting with Romney (http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20121015/NEWS/310150041/Mormonism-cult-claim-vanishes-from-Graham-site?odyssey=nav%7Chead).  Lord I hope not.  Bro. Billy, we can pray for Mitt, love him, and even share the gospel with him...but lets not be more american than we are Christian.  Jesus, you are who you say you are.  Not changed by political winds.  Who wins?  I really don't care.  Jesus is coming.  Get ready.-  Stu

http://www.religionfacts.com/mormonism/comparison.htm

	Mormonism	Mainstream Christianity
Religious Authority	All sacred texts equally, continuing revelations	Bible (all), ecumenical councils and creeds (Catholic and Orthodox), official papal pronouncements (Catholic), continuing revelations (Pentecostal)
Sacred Texts	Bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, Pearl of Great Price	Bible (some include Apocrypha)
Trinity	Rejected - Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three distinct beings who are "one in purpose"	Affirmed - Father, Son and Holy Spirit are of the "same substance"; three persons in one being
God	Heavenly Father, who has a physicalbody	Trinitarian God, who does not have a body
Jesus Christ	Son of God, Savior, originally one of the spirit beings that all humans used to be (see Jesus Christ). Has aphysical body.	Son of God, Word of God, God, secondPerson of the Trinity (see Christology)
Holy Spirit	A spirit being who is a separate being from God and Jesus.	God, Third Person of the Trinity
Original sin	Denied (see Human Nature)	Affirmed (by most denominations)
Free will	Free to do good or evil	Free will to do good is seriously impaired
Purpose of Christ's Incarnation	Teach about God, provide a model for right living, die sacrificially for human sin (see Jesus Christ)	Teach about God, provide a model for right living, die sacrificially for human sin, reveal God directly to humanity
Resurrection of Christ?	Yes	Yes
Salvation	Both faith and works; works emphasized	Both faith and works; faith emphasized (in most denominations)
Second chance after death?	Yes, during a period of "learning and preparation" after death	No
Afterlife	All spirits go to the spirit world, undergo preparation, then rejoin with bodies in the resurrection (seeAfterlife). The good spend the intervening time in spirit paradise, while the wicked go to spirit prison.	Souls of wicked sent to Hell, believers go to Heaven for eternity (see Afterlife). In Catholicism, many believers will suffer inPurgatory before going to Heaven.
Hell	The wicked enter an unpleasant "spirit prison" prior to judgment; after that, only the most obstinately wicked (like Satan) will be consigned to "Outer Darkness" for eternity.	Place (or state of being) of eternal torment and distance from God.
Place of Worship	Chapel or Temple	Church
Meaning of Sacraments (Chr) or Ordinances (LDS)	Ordinances are covenants between man and God and a means of grace. Some of them are necessary for salvation.	Symbolic acts commanded by Christ (some Protestant); means of grace if received with faith (Catholic, Orthodox, and some Protestant).
Sacraments (Chr) or Ordinances (LDS)	Include baptism, confirmation, the sacrament (Lord's Supper), laying on of hands, ordination, temple endowment, and marriage sealing (see Temple Ordinances)	Two common to all denominations: Baptism and Lord's Supper. Total of seven in Catholicism.
Symbols	No official symbol; cross is not used; the angel Moroni raising a trumpet isseen atop Mormon temples	Cross, fish and others
Holidays	Easter, Christmas, national and local holidays, birthdays, celebrations of events in Mormon history	Easter, Christmas, saints' days, several others
	Mormonism	Mainstream Christianity