Saturday, October 12, 2013
The Death of Thinking Men
"All thinking men are atheists." Ernest Hemingway...
We all live in a much troubled world, especially in the Philippines, because we all have been educated to believe that God will only save the stupid souls of the STUPID BELIEVERS; but will punish forever in hell the souls of the INTELLIGENT THINKERS!...
When Ernest Hemingway could no longer THINK as he was suffering much pain with cancer, he committed suicide. He was indeed, not only a man of self-respect and dignity, but he was, himself, also a THINKING MAN!...
For my part, I will always love, respect, admire, and try to emulate the great life of such THINKING MEN! And when I will have no more capacity to do so - I too will commit suicide! I said it before, I say it again: FUCK DEATH!
We atheists, when we die, we die sober and not drunk with religious lies or with biblical deceptions! Poch Suzara Twitter# Facebook# Atheist# Google#
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Poch, I beseech you, don't choose the way of Ernest Hemingway. It is God's prerogative to take a life, not yours. It's called murder. You and I can learn from the people of faith, my spiritual forefathers, also known as the Puritans, when it comes to facing death and dying. In his book A Quest for Holiness: The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, J. I. Packer likens the Puritans to the tall Redwoods of California, saying, “As Redwoods attract the eye, because they overtop other trees, so the mature holiness and seasoned fortitude of the great Puritans shine before us as a kind of beacon light, overtopping the stature of the majority of Christians in most eras, . . .” (11). One of the areas in which we can learn from the Puritans, suggests Packer, is in their view of life and death: “The Puritans have taught me to see and feel the transitoriness of this life, to think of it, with all its richness, as essentially the gymnasium and dressing-room where we are prepared for heaven, and to regard readiness to die as the first step in learning to live. Here again is an historic Christian emphasis-Patristic, Medieval, Reformational, Puritan, Evangelical-with which the Protestantism that I know has largely lost touch. The Puritans experienced systematic persecution for their faith; what we today think of as comforts of home were unknown to them; their medicine and surgery were rudimentary; they had no aspirins, tranquilizers, sleeping tablets or anti-depressant pills, just as they had no social security or insurance; in a world in which more than half the adult population died young and more than half the children born died in infancy, disease, distress, discomfort, pain and death were their constant companions. They would have been lost had they not kept their eyes on heaven and known themselves as pilgrims travelling home to the Celestial City” (13-14). Oh, may we learn to be pilgrims who are merely passing through this place until we arrive home in that Celestial City on the new earth and that “though our outer man is wasting away, our inner nature is being renewed day by day. For this slight momentary affliction is preparing us for an eternal weigh of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal” (2 Corinthians 5:16-18, ESV). I fervently hope to see you on the other shore.
Post a Comment