“Men are given to worshipping malevolent gods, and that which is not cruel seems to them not worth their adoration.”

—— Anatole France (1844-1924),

Originally posted by 667joe
“Men are given to worshipping malevolent gods, and that which is not cruel seems to them not worth their adoration.”

—— Anatole France (1844-1924),

Originally posted by 667joe
“Men are given to worshipping malevolent gods, and that which is not cruel seems to them not worth their adoration.”

—— Anatole France (1844-1924),

Originally posted by Suzianne
Can I ask you what is your point with this?

That is exactly my point! Love and fear are antithetical.

Originally posted by 667joe
That is exactly my point! Love and fear are antithetical.

Originally posted by KellyJay
Really? You cannot love and fear your father?

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Originally posted by KellyJay
Really? You cannot love and fear your father?

Originally posted by FMF
If I had started a thread with this quote, I would have entitled it "Love v Fear" and I would have hoped for a discussion on perceptions of divine authority and whether "love " that is induced by coercion or threats or fear can ever be genuine love.

Originally posted by Suzianne
I probably would have responded that perhaps Anatole France didn't know what he was talking about.

Originally posted by FMF
Be that is it may, but the issue of whether "love" that is induced by coercion or threats or fear can ever be a genuine kind of love is not addressed by simply aiming a lazy ad hominem at a Nobel laureate who died in 1924.

Originally posted by Suzianne
That you label what I just said as an "ad hominem" IS an "ad hominem" (or perhaps an "ad femina" ).

Originally posted by Suzianne
If you open your thread with a quote, I expect the validity of the quote is open for debate. If you only want to talk about your imagined "ad Deus" attack, then perhaps you should open with what you want to talk about.