In case people didn't think my last post was long enough... think again. I was driving home doing some more deep thinking about the article and realized something else...something that I find even more mind-boggling, astonishing, and utterly devastating. I realized that the author of that article truly thinks that he, life, and the world are all better off in not believing in God. See, before reading this article, I realized that atheists don't necessarily see the point of believing in God. Yet, now I realized that some, if not all, of them actually think that it is harmful for the race of people to believe in God. Up to this point in my life, I never thought that that anyone, even atheists, would ever truly think that it could be harmful to me to believe in God.

Yet according to the article, my believing in God insinuates that:

1. I am able to mistreat people because I have God that will forgive me. I have the ability to live sloppily and make mistakes without over thinking things through the first time.
2. I may not be able to appreciate different peoples from different cultures.
3. I can not agree with other peoples about reality since our realities differ since they are centered around different religions, belief systems, theological books, and gods.

It's mind boggling to me because all of the conclusions that he has come to are not entirely false. Yet, that is just the way that the devil works. 99.999999% of what he says may be true, yet it's that .000001% that does the most damage. I know that the conclusions he came to are false because:

1. I am not able to mistreat people. Even though I may seek forgiveness from the people around me for the mistakes I make, I can not make excuses for them. I do need to try to not do them the first time around and I need to try to constantly repent and keep myself from making the same mistakes time and time again. I need God, His grace, and His forgiveness to help me make these changes.
2. I personally have gone into other cultures and do appreciate them for their differences and similarities that they have to mine.
3. I realize that people can not agree on a reality when they believe that different realities exist. Yet I believe that when God says that if we seek Him with out whole heart, mind, soul, and strength that we will find Him. So, I know that no matter what religion or belief system that people currently have, they can and they will come to believe the same reality if they truly seek Him.

I wish that people would not see the imperfections of Christians and that they would not see how we have made Christianity faulty.... and that it wouldn't cause them to believe inaccurate truths because of our imperfections but that they would somehow still see God for who He truly is and for what He wants our lives to look like.