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Hypothetical question for anyone

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Nonsense.

When FMF equated your question to one Becker might ask you hastily clarified it was "obliquely targeted at sonship."

So clearly it 'wasn't' intended for atheists and 'was' a dig at Sonship.

At least be honest about it.

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@caissad4 said
I answered your question .
Reread my answer .
Hint , I said no .
And it was the only sensible answer an atheist could make.

Only a theist could contemplate, even hypothetically, worshipping a God who burnt people alive for eternity or indeed believe such a God existed.

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As FMF said:

This is not a question an atheist can answer. Pardon me, but it reminds me of a question dj2becker once asked me: [my paraphrasing...] "If you believed in God and knew that everything taught about God was true, what justification would you have for continuing to be an atheist?"



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It was amusing how he shut you down with his first post.

Hard to recover from a Becker comparison.

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I can honestly say I haven't lost a single friend over your combined nonsense.

I actually gained a few.


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Assuming that my belief in a torturer God meant that I also believed that threats of torture could turn non-believers into believers, perhaps I would participate in rounding up non-believers and

[1] first threaten them with torture in order to make them believe the same as what I believed, and, if that didn't work,

[2] I would torture them until they believed, and, if that didn't work,

[3] I would perhaps torture them to death as it wouldn't really matter and, given my belief in a torturer God, I might belief that it would act as a deterrent and/or motivation to other non-believers and people from sonship's "other worlds".

I might even hang them out, burning, on chains to display what I believed to be the "glory" of my torturer God.


@fmf said
Assuming that my belief in a torturer God meant that I also believed that threats of torture could turn non-believers into believers, perhaps I would participate in rounding up non-believers and

[1] first threaten them with torture in order to make them believe the same as what I believed, and, if that didn't work,

[2] I would torture them until they believed, and, if tha ...[text shortened]... n hang them out, burning, on chains to display what I believed to be the "glory" of my torturer God.
TL; DR version...

If the torturer God ideology is actually true ~ torture in flames for eternity for being a non-believer as opposed to it being a punishment for not adhering to a code for morally sound living ~ then I can see only a kind of grotesque moral bankruptcy.


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