O’Neill continues to spew nonsense. His sermon on FAITH is a good example. To be fair, O’Neill is not the only theistic teacher who spits nonsense about “faith.”
What is glaring about O’Neill’s little sermon on faith is its sheer inanity. When I recently re-read his sermon on faith after so many years, I remembered what an idiot I must have been to believe in such nonsense.
O’Neill starts rightly (as many theologians do) that thinking people are skeptical about faith. He also rightly points out that faith is believing in something which we know is either untrue or simply cannot be true.
The key question that O’Neill skirts (just as all theologians do) WHY DO WE NEED FAITH? IS FAITH A LEGITIMATE METHOD OF ACQUIRING KNOWLDEGE? Right here is where O’Neill brings in the red herring. O’Neill, like most typical theologians does not tacke this basic question asked above. O’Neill quickly tells us, “that is not what faith is.” (a legitimate means of acqiring knowldege as opposed to reason). Then in a very strange twist, O’Neill jumps from FAITH to TRUST. Faith has nothing to do with acquiring knowledge. Faith simply means trust, the kind of trust that a child has for her mother or parent.
There you go world. Faith has no conflict with knowledge because it simply means trusting with the mental attitude of an infant. Problem solved, the inane O’Neill way!
FACT: Mr. O’Neill either pretends that he is dumb or he is an idiot who thinks he can impress worse idiots than him. Faith is necessary because without this thing called faith theology will be impossible. Faith comes in only by usurping and supplanting human reason and experience. Faith comes in by creating doubt (skepticism) that human mind is sufficient. Faith comes in by creating an illusion that there is a world outside of our senses — this illusory world — the world invisible.
By the way, did anyone notice the contradiction in O’Neill’s website? First, true to O’Neill’s character, even a “spiritual” site end in dot com. (Commerce has always been O’Neill’s number one priority.)
Second, how can anyone in his or her right mind say that there is a world out there which cannot be apprehended by human senses (which indeed is invisible) and then turn around and make the stupid claim that “I have seen this world!!!” “And I know such an unseen world exists.”
That is exactly what O’Neill and his slavish enablers are saying to the world. An utterly nonsensical claim. None of these people have “experienced” anything of this “invisible” world, because by their own definition it is outside the human realm. Yet, these deluded people claim that they have “touched” and “apprehended” this “invisible world.” It does not take a genius to know that this a contradictory, false claim.
This is indeed where faith comes in. Once the “inadequacy” of the human mind is affirmed, faith is the only way to apprehend this “other invisible world.” The only problem here is that since none of them (including O’Neill) has experienced the “world invisible” one must “trust” O’Neill and the wonderful experience of “reality” he had years ago.
Which is what all religious leaders, gurus and prophets have demanded. An attitude of trust and humility from their followers. Because without such an attitude faith cannot be learned.
If you still cannot see through this guy and the bunch of “yes men” that surround him, then I cannot help you.
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EXPOSING Rev. "PASTOR" ERNEST O'NEILL 