11 Nov '09 13:22>
Originally posted by Hand of Hecatejust because the implementation suks doesn't mean the idea is suky as well. christianity is a good idea. having a pope dictate religious laws from the comfy chair of "the pope is always right" is not. islam is a good idea, blowing infidels up as the will of god is not.
You're missing the point. As I've stated earlier, I am willing to accept that an omniwhatever being outside our understanding may exist. Call this God. What I have a problem with is the mythology we as humans have wrapped around this being. Christianity is a joke. As are all organized religions. We suffer from a conceit that we know the nature o ...[text shortened]... desire to assign value/understanding to unknowns.
God does not exist as we have defined it.
"God does not exist as we have defined it."
of course not. you cannot define a human being properly, let a alone a supposedly infinite being such as god.