Categories: life-and-musings, faith
Date: 06 March 2007 20:06:48
The "are you a sinner or are you a winner?" bloke has, since his ASBO banning him from all of Westminster, set up shop in Rosamundi-ville. I do my best to block him out, but something he said today snuck through, and made me extremely angry.
I'm paraphrasing here, but the gist of it was "you can't be happy unless you're a Christian, you won't be unhappy if you're a Christian, become a Christian and you'll be happy, if you're not happy, you're not a Christian."
In the deepest of Christian Lurve™, Mr Preacher Man, I've never heard such utter tripe in all my born days.
I know plenty of atheists who are just bubbling over with the joys of spring, and skip gaily through life like new-born lambs. Likewise, I know a few Christians whose faith in God is the only thing preventing them from doing a swan-dive into a pit of despair.
So you can take your miserable, joyless faith (because, from where I was stood waiting for the lights to change, you didn't sound terribly happy to me), fold it until it's all corners, and shove it somewhere painful. Sideways.