God Gave Me A Pass

I'm not sure if it's because the internet is allowing me to see it more or just that we've become a self-serving group of people but, I am seeing a LOT of people saying that their actions are OK because 'God forgave them'.

I just watched a segment of Kim Davis on Good Morning America saying that her previous marriages and children via adultery do not make her a hypocrite because she is 'forgiven' and 'washed clean' by her god.

Real life doesn't work like that, lady.

You see, she and many others would not accept me just saying that whatever wrong doing I've done has been forgiven by the Flying Spaghetti Monster. His Holy Noodliness holds no real power over them. It does not mean anything to them. No matter how much I insist that He loves you, wants you to follow Him, and He boiled for your sins (Ramen), they will never buy that nonsense.

Yet, they have this absurd notion that their mythical deity holds power over us. They insist that He loves us, wants us to follow Him, and died for our sins. When we regard that for what it is, nonsense, they still insist that their argument holds more weight.

Religious people refuse to see the correlation between the two stories. Somehow FSM is just made up gibberish while a Bronze-Age man, born of a virgin, walking on water, being pissed at a fig tree, and dying on a cross is gospel truth.

Let's be honest. The Jesus story sounds more real because it's the one most of us grew up with. It doesn't have anything to do with how long it's been around. Hinduism has been around for 5,000 years and sounds like the most ridiculous story ever conjured up. It sounds weird because it wasn't the weird we grew up with.

The Jesus story, the Mohammad story, the Krishna story....all of it is made up and holds no authority over those who have never heard of it. By insisting your actions are forgiven by your particular brand of 'holy truth' holds no water for atheists and people of other religions. Stop using it as an excuse.

As an atheist, I must ask for forgiveness from those I've actually wronged. If I do something illegal, I must pay the secular price. I have the law to answer to. That's the way it works in real life. Imagine if we just allow people to atone for their mistakes via their religion. Nothing would be done.

And, by dismissing your hypocrite actions by saying 'god is OK with it', does not make your actions any less hurtful. Your empty words of salvation mean nothing. You ARE a hypocrite. And we will call you such.