(b) How can you truly be in love with that significant other, if you don't want her anymore?
That, I agree with - if you're truly in love, you'll want someone forever.
If you truly love a woman, you'll want to spend your entire life with her and her alone.
That, I don't agree with. I see no reason why love should be limited by gender or number. ie: I think it's entirely possible for three people to love each other. Afterall, most people have that many family members.
Yeah, so 'family love' is a different type of love, but I think 'partner love' is ultimately a richer extension of that, and I don't think it should be forced that only male-female marriages should be allowed.
(Oh, I should note that I don't equate love and sex, like some people might.)
This isn't just a commandment from God. Society itself embraces this law.
Screw Society. According to society, anyone who sits at a computer playing online games is a sad no-life loser, yet that is a blatant fallacy.
Society just supports that which it sees as normal, and dissaproves of anything that doesn't fit into it's normality, despite the fact that a 'normal' society
must have extremes to actually be mathematically normal.
Now for my questions/thoughts.
1. I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me. (or:
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.)
If the Yahweh is the only god, why does he feel put this as the First Commandment?
It's not even a "I am the only god." He is specifically saying not to worship other gods. For me, he is as good as saying that he is just one of many gods.
Also, Genesis. This place "Nod, on the east of Eden" - it has people in it. Where did these people come from? If Yahweh made them, why does Genesis only focus on Adam and Eve? The logical explanation is that he didn't make these other people. Maybe another god created them. Maybe they evolved from monkeys.
Two examples which require little thought to take as a specific admission of not being the only god, yet so many Christians hold onto (what I perceive to be) the man-made concept of Yahweh being the only god.
Add into that logic - nothing at all in existance is proven unique. I'm not talking about at a characteristic level; I'm sure there are some people that have unique facial features, or whatever. My point is that everything is multiple - animals, people, plants, planets, galaxies. Even the universe isn't proven to be unique - there's various theories of alternative universeses/multiverses and so on.
Now if all these are the case, why should there only be a single god?
Well, perhaps there is, and this god created the entire multiverse. Perhaps the reason why this god 'lets' suffering happen is because he's too busy with some other part of the universe which is in a worse state.
For a while, when I was religious/scientific, that was what I thought.
Then I effectively rejected everything and built up ideas from scratch, and it came to me what an absurd concept that was. Yeah, it might work logically, but it just doesn't
fit.
So, the other option is that there isn't a single god. Which means there's either lots of them, or none at all. I currently swing both/neither way here - it's never possible to prove against that theory, but there is insufficient evidence to 'prove' for.
Next thing, Jesus. Why do Christians worship him? Yahweh has specifically said not to worship anyone or anything else. Jesus never asked to be worshipped, either.
Yeah, so maybe he was the Son of God, but that doesn't mean you worship him. Not when both him and his father have said not to.
If I was still a Christian - well, I wouldn't be. I'd call myself a ... whatever, something that specifically does not represent a worship of Jesus, because it's completely against the laws of the religion!
Um, I'm a bit hungry, but I've still got various other things that annoy me which I'll post later.
