Originally posted by sonhouse I AM talking about your so-called god, IT was 100% man made. 2000 odd years have gone by while incredible atrocities have been committed both in its name and by organized thugs killing by the millions, by the hundreds of millions and all of that totally ok by your so-called god, nary a word against all that killing, the crusades, the religious based attacks ...[text shortened]... een hundred years, going on as we speak today.
And you worship this god of non interference.
I thought non-interference is what you atheists want.
Originally posted by sonhouse What level of non interference is ok with you? So far its running at about 2% of the human race dead through violence, religious or otherwise.
What number would you expect your god to respond to? 50%? 90%? What?
God responds at all levels. Just because you can't see it, or don't understand it, or it isn't what you expect, doesn't mean He is not involved.
God's love extends beyond the limits of our imagination. And all people great and small, slave or free, ARE His children. They just don't know it yet. Yes, from the most wicked, to the most humble. All are God's created children.
Originally posted by Pianoman1 ... true god is "arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully".
Fair point.
But he did give us the pretty rainbow.
He's not all bad!
Originally posted by Pianoman1 Your true god is "arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully".
Originally posted by MISTER CHESS Is that Mark Twain?
I am plenty safe enough in his hands; I am not in any danger from that kind of a Deity. The one that I want to keep out of the reach of, is the caricature of him which one finds in the Bible. We (that one and I) could never respect each other, never get along together. I have met his superior a hundred times-- in fact I amount to that myself.
- Letter to Olivia Clemens, 17 July 1889
Originally posted by JS357 I am plenty safe enough in his hands; I am not in any danger from that kind of a Deity. The one that I want to keep out of the reach of, is the caricature of him which one finds in the Bible. We (that one and I) could never respect each other, never get along together. I have met his superior a hundred times-- in fact I amount to that myself.
- Letter to Olivia Clemens, 17 July 1889
sonhouse was Mark Twain in a previous life?
All I wanna know is, does he still have the mustache?
The gender of God
08 Oct '13 09:26
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