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Must have been late after noon
I could tell by how far the child's shadow stretched out
And he walked with a purpose in his sneakers down the street
He had many questions like children often do
He said, "Tell me all your thoughts on God
And tell me, am I very far?"
Must have been late after noon
On our way, the sun broke free of the clouds
We count only blue cars skip the cracks in the street
And ask many questions like children often do
We said, "Tell me all your thoughts on God
'Cause I'd really like to meet her.
And ask her why we're who we are."
Tell me all your thoughts on God
'Cause I'm on my way to see her
So tell me, am I very far
Am I very far now
It's getting cold, picked up the pace
How our shoes make hard noises in this place
Our clothes are stained, we pass many cross eyed people
And ask many questions like children often do
We said, Tell me all your thoughts on God
'Cause I'd really like to meet her
And ask her why we're who we are
Tell me all your thoughts on God
'Cause I'm on my way to see her
So tell me am I very far
Am I very far now?
Tell me all your thoughts on God
Tell me all your thoughts on God
I could tell by how far the child's shadow stretched out
And he walked with a purpose in his sneakers down the street
He had many questions like children often do
He said, "Tell me all your thoughts on God
And tell me, am I very far?"
Must have been late after noon
On our way, the sun broke free of the clouds
We count only blue cars skip the cracks in the street
And ask many questions like children often do
We said, "Tell me all your thoughts on God
'Cause I'd really like to meet her.
And ask her why we're who we are."
Tell me all your thoughts on God
'Cause I'm on my way to see her
So tell me, am I very far
Am I very far now
It's getting cold, picked up the pace
How our shoes make hard noises in this place
Our clothes are stained, we pass many cross eyed people
And ask many questions like children often do
We said, Tell me all your thoughts on God
'Cause I'd really like to meet her
And ask her why we're who we are
Tell me all your thoughts on God
'Cause I'm on my way to see her
So tell me am I very far
Am I very far now?
Tell me all your thoughts on God
Tell me all your thoughts on God
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Counting Blue Cars Lyrics as written by George Edward Iii Pendergast George Pendergast Iii
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It's about how children usually spot the worst holes in adults' beliefs. The 'god' of adults, is male, patriarchal, wrathful, acts like a spoiled brat, an extremely authoritarian school principal, and a sadist at times. Totally unlike how a creator should be.
A child, meanwhile, still innocent and sees things for what it is, can immediately see the inconsistencies. Why is god male when it is actually women who give birth, nurture children, and are symbols of life? Why would he ever condemn any of his children to a sad life or hell if he created them in the first place?
It's the kind of questions you think of when you see a child born with an incurable genetic disease. When you see christians beat a gay man to death (a double damnation, if you ask me, they're tortured and shunned while alive and then sent to hell afterwards, how could a god do that?). When you see the wars and terrorism resulting from what is exactly the same god from different prophets.
But you immediately suppress because of ingrained conditioning. You are not supposed to ask because doubt is bad. We end up never thinking much about it, and going on with out lives pretending like we understand faith and god. Going so far as to pretend to know his thoughts, what he wants and what he does not want. When in reality we simply have just set the questions aside and settled for the most convenient answers, no matter how wrong or how harmful they are to our fellowmen.
We laugh at children's questions like that because we don't know either.
You make some big accusations, are you prepared to back them up? I'm going to guess you have never read the bible from front to back, or the Qur'an. Definitely not both. What about the catholic bible? Jewish Torah? No? So you don't know what either says their God is do u? How can you claim they a 'll follow the same god? U just assume, right? Well they don't. Read it and prove me wrong. I'm also guessing you were forced to go to church by your parents, weren't you? Maybe not, but still, if you read the bible u would know, god doesn't wish for anybody to go to hell, he always gives them a way out, Jesus. It doesn't say u have to live a sinless life, I t says you have to accept him as your savior and as the son of God, that's all. Just try, that's it. As for gays, they choose to live that hard life just as they choose hell over a loving God, and how sexist of you to say all men are spoiled, aggressive, angry, patriarchal and just messed up and all women are loving and nurturing, and a woman may be the one who is pregnant, but I'd love to see a woman make a baby without any help or sperm from a man. And a sad life isn't condemning, it's a blessing, a way to glorify god, which brings people to him, which saves them from hell. I have a question for you, why are you trying so hard to prove he doesn't exist, and who are you trying to convince? My motivation is clear. if people know, they are saved from hell if they believe. But u, are you trying to convince the readers, or yourself? If god is real that means you have to give up some control of your life and that you do in fact sin and there is a hell. It scares you.
I have a copy of the Qu'ran as well and have read a fair amount of it to know that both books are basically describing the same people, the same beliefs, and the same god - the Jewish one. There's a reason why all of them are called the Abrahamic religions, and why Muslims still refer to Christians and Jews as "the people of the book" (not "the books", but a single book, one they all share - the Old Testament). Read it yourself. Everything from Adam and Eve, to Noah, to Isaac and Jacob, to Abraham, to Jesus is in the Qu'ran. EVERYTHING. Muslims even consider Jesus the Messiah, though not a god. Jews in turn, don't believe in Jesus or Mohammed, and still believe that the real Messiah has yet to arrive. And you still think they're worshipping the same gods? LOL. They all even have the same ten commandments.<br /> <br /> I wouldn't call the Old Testament a "loving" god either. Almost everything he did was command people to conquer, enslave, punish, or otherwise annihilate other peoples. And the Bible is especially cruel to women. From Lot (the most virtuous man in Sodom) offering his virgin daughters to be raped, to specific instructions on how to beat your woman correctly. <br /> <br /> Ever wonder why that is? Because the Old Testament was written in the Middle East. Which has strongly patriarchal cultures where even woman today can't drive or be in the same room with a man who is not relative. That is the god you worship. A sky-father. A virtual recreation of the average leader of a desert clan a few thousand years ago. Angry, controlling, jealous, male. I hope you're not one of those American conservatives who seem to believe that Jesus was American. He wasn't. Everyone in the Bible is a Middle Easterner.<br /> <br /> As for being afraid of death, LOL. Ask yourself this, if you were not threatened by hell, would you still be a good person? Would you be generous or kind to your fellowmen if your god specifically tells you that the only way to go to heaven was to be cruel to them? I bet you wouldn't. You'd happily maim, torture, and kill if it meant a ticket to heaven, as the Biblical jews did to neighboring cities (including specific instructions to kill children) because you're so scared of the alternative. Don't believe me? Ask a terrorist, a soldier, etc. why they kill innocent people, and chances are they'll tell you "for god".<br /> <br /> An atheist who does a good thing, does it from innate goodness. A believer who does a good thing, does it usually because god/their pastor told them to. Which of these is true goodness and which of this is a selfish act intended to get you more points so you can get past the pearly gates without problem? And while you're at it, ask yourself why children already know instinctively the difference between good and evil, even without religion? <br /> <br /> And no, I don't care what you believe in. I'm an agnostic atheist. I don't pretend to know if there is a god or not, much less what he or she or it actually wants. It only matters to me when you start using religion to justify your hate and cruelty to other people.
I have. I was born Catholic. Reading the Bible was actually one of the catalysts for me becoming an atheist. Jesus was a good man for sure, but the Old Testament god was pure evil. And there's nothing you can say that would change that. <br /> <br /> (First paragraph got cut off apparently, this precedes my previous post)