What does it mean to be a "God Fearing Man"?

I've seen that term used before and it got me thinking about it after I saw an old high school acquaintance put that in his "religion" category on Face Book.

It got me thinking about the concept of needing to fear God. This is the God that is supposed to care for, love you more than anything. Unfortunately there are a lot of stipulations for that love like unending worship, adoration , obedience, etc.

Even though Christians in general may not consciously think about it there are a lot of analogies to God being a father type figure. I'm really not sure what Jesus is supposed to be, your brother perhaps? I saw something on the side of a church today which said something like "so all may know him". I guess when they say him they mean Jesus but I'm not for sure.

But I digress. Something that is supposed to love you dearly you shouldn't have to fear at ALL. Can you truly love something back that you also fear at the same time? How it would it sound if someone called Betty a "husband fearing wife"? What would come to your mind? Probably that Betty wishes she was out of the marriage, and did not truly love her husband. We'd probably want to help Betty get out of the relationship. So, if anyone ever tells me they are a "god fearing man" I'd do my best to try and help them get out of that relationship, especially since God is imaginary anyway. Why be fearful of something that doesn't exist?

How are there still local tv weather people employed?

I'm watching Lost tonight and Mark Murray shows up at the end of a KVUE 24 commercial with some sort of "tease" to get you to watch the newscast tonight.

That sort of stuff may have worked up to the late 90's but nowadays you can find out your local weather instantly on the internet. Do they not realize they look stupid by doing this? I can maybe understand watching a local newscast for local news that you may have a harder time finding online...but the weather?! give me a break.

Can Christianity and Evolution Co exist?

I was reading PZ Myers blog today and one of the posts caught my eye. It's titled "Kook fight"

You can read it here:

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/02/kook_fight.php

Basically it's about two prominent apologists arguing between each other whether or not there is a "conflict" between Christianity and evolution. Ray Comfort says that there is and I ABSOLUTELY agree with him.

I believe that you can believe in some type of god and have no issues with evolution at all. But, when you bring Christianity into it (getting into stricter definitions of your "god") the two can not both be true.

Either the Christian God made Adam and Eve, they sinned, God sent down a man version of himself, a "savior" (I still laugh at this concept) to die for us..........or he DID NOT.

By agreeing with the evidence of evolution you MUST chunk out the bible story of the creation, Adam/Eve, the fall from grace, Jesus needing to come, etc.

The bible was written many 100's of years ago when we had no clue of our origins. It was quite OK back then to make up a story about a god creating us because at that time there really wasn't a better explanation!

It still amazes me how people can still believe that stuff with all of the evidence that we have showing otherwise. More on that on a future post.

A couple of questions for atheists and christians

Mostly for the Christians, but I'd like to get comments from atheist's as well.

Number 1 - If you were suddenly bestowed the power (and you do not know what or whom bestowed you with this) so that you could live forever (and you couldn't be killed..period) would you still worship your god? Keep in mind you are only now living forever, you do not get the extra stuff as omniscience, omnipotent, etc.

Number 2 - What exactly would it take for you to consider yourself a god? What powers and abilities would you feel necessary to give yourself that classification?

Thanks for any feedback!

The Amazing Atheist

I just love that guy, he posts videos all the time, I just don't see how he does it. It must be his full time job to post videos on YouTube.

I just put a video bar up featuring his last 4 videos. Enjoy!