Express Yourself

Express Yourself
EXPRESS YOURSELF! DON'T BACK DOWN! “Esta é uma palavra fiel, e digna de toda a aceitação, que Cristo Jesus veio ao mundo, para salvar os pecadores, dos quais eu sou o principal.” [1 TIMÓTEO 01:15]

quarta-feira, 4 de junho de 2025

'HAPPINESS CAN ONLY BE ACHIEVED WITH GOD!' - REALLY?

'Happiness can only be achieved with God!'

 
We have to be very careful with this type of statement, because, for Christians (I include myself in this), God is the Truth. However, from the moment it is stated that 'Happiness can only be achieved with God!', all other knowledge, truths and other 'happiness' are belittled!
 
Christians have this habit of saying that only those who follow Jesus/God/the Bible are happy. Which is a LIE! In fact, it is an egocentrism based on fallacies, tending towards religiosity and fundamentalism. 'Living with God' and/or TRYING to 'follow the Bible' is just another way of living, it is just another way of achieving the famous 'happiness'. To present this as the absolute truth is to belittle all those who do not follow this 'truth'. From the moment that it is stated that there is only this 'truth', all other human beings who think differently are excluded. In fact, it is not possible that all human beings who do not follow Christianity and who do not read the Bible are unhappy! Are all Candomblé practitioners, spiritualists, Buddhists, etc. unhappy people!? I assume not!
 
All ABSOLUTE TRUTH, all extremism, tends towards corruptibility!
 
It is more or less similar to FUNK. MC Poze do Rodo was released from prison and Arthur do Val (MBL) made a video talking about it. In the video, he reacted to a young man with the famous 'Carioca rogue' manner, and Arthur do Val, in addition to imitating the young man's way of speaking, said that he has no future and that he has no cognitive capacity. And he also asked: “What should be done with this guy? How does this guy help society? How is this guy productive? How is this guy virtuous? Imagine a week with this guy. What does this guy produce in a week? Tell me. What does this guy do with his life? What value does he add to society? Tell me!”. Yesterday, a video came out showing this young man at CEASA carrying weight, bags of food, and Mamãe Falei posted a video apologizing. My question to you is: Is every community resident, with the ‘carioca mischievous way’ and who listens to funk and trap, a criminal? Is listening to Oruam and MC Poze do Rodo (despite being terrible influences and committing crimes by defending drug trafficking according to Article 287 of the Penal Code) synonymous with vagrancy? Unfortunately, we live in a society where this mentality has been passed off as ‘truth’. But I ask you: is it true? I don’t think so!
 
All ABSOLUTE TRUTH, all extremism, tends towards corruptibility!
 
It is with this mentality of 'Only X is true' that great atrocities have occurred in our society, such as Nazism and the deaths of millions of Jews, gays, etc. It is because of this mentality of 'Only X is true!' that there are terrorist groups that kill Christians, gays, etc. for pleasure, such as the Hamas group and the Isis group.
 
“The Nazis took advantage of the hopes, fears and prejudices that already existed among the population and created scapegoats. They used false allegations that Jews and Communists were largely responsible for Germany's problems. This allegation, in fact, was simply part of their anti-Semitic and racist ideology.” [Holocaust Encyclopedia Portal]
 
“Their spiritual leaders, from the Iranian ayatollahs to the Saudi Grand Mufti, consider homosexuality a crime that goes against the norms of Islam and should be severely punished.” [Portal BBC News Brasil]
 
So, let's be careful with these statements about 'absolute truth', because my heaven is probably the hell of many others.
 
Final observation:
As I always say: the Bible has a social, political, cultural and economic context. The question will never be to rewrite it, but rather how to use it for the present day. How to use the Bible to address society's new agendas? How to take the Bible and dialogue with new technologies, new knowledge and advances?
 
A hug and let's question everything and everyone!

LINKS
HOMOSSEXUALIDADE NA BÍBLIA: O MAIOR PECADO DA HUMANIDADE (?)
 
HOMOSSEXUALIDADE: BÍBLIA X PSICOLOGIA [É escolha? Nasce assim?]
 
SILAS MALAFAIA E ANDRÉ VALADÃO - COMO SERIA ESCRITA A BÍBLIA NOS DIAS DE HOJE?
 
DdQ [20/07/2020] – OS HOMOSSEXUAIS JÁ ESTÃO MORTOS!
 
HITLER CHEGA AO PODER
 
O que o Alcorão diz sobre a homossexualidade e por que ela é punida no mundo muçulmano

Imagem: https://arquidiocesesorocaba.org.br/a-fe-a-igreja-e-a-biblia/

June 04th, 2025
Raphael Paiva

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