Now you've shaken my faith! |
"But Marc", you now say, "You have made strong arguments here. You have shaken my faith. You are making me think about things that are very uncomfortable. You have put Satan's message into my brain and are now tempting me with a life of sin! Everything you say makes sense and now I'm scared. If I believe in reality I have to give up my whole church scene. I've believed in Jesus all my life and now I have doubts. Are you Satan? What are you doing to me?"
Up at the top of this page I warned people who have strong religious beliefs not to read this. If you are right in your religion then you have to assume that I am directly controlled by Satan and you just read Satan's message and are being seduced by Satan himself. I am - of course - completely and unknowingly controlled by the Devil and you now have his message firmly embedded into your brain. But - you were warned and you did it anyway. Now you're faced with believing in reality and losing your lifestyle and risking eternal damnation, or staying with the fantasy and asking God to forgive you for reading this web page and asking him to purge the evil thoughts from your brain.
This is like the movie "The Matrix" (A film that was written and produced by Satan himself!) where the main character is given the choice between two pills. The Blue Pill would let him go back into the fantasy world and continue to pretend and live in an artificial computer generated reality. The Red Pill however would let him see reality as it really is. In some ways we are similarly situated here. We can continue to try to force ourselves to live the lie and believe in the ridiculous, or we can decide to explore reality the way it really is. And - if you want to waste your limited existence with fantasy - you can do that. It's your choice.
By the way, for those who are wondering - yes - Satan does give me rewards for every soul I steal from Jesus.
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