(September 26, 2015 at 11:56 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote:Well, actually god can't be mocked. How do you mock something that doesn't exist? People mock the concept of god and the idiocy of folks who believe in him.(September 26, 2015 at 11:45 am)robvalue Wrote: What does that mean, god is not mocked?
If I mock him, it doesn't count? It gets wiped from history?
Man, I've been trying to figure that out. "God is not mocked!" is one of the favorite expressions of the people from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas (literally half a mile up the street where my office was located, when I was a field biologist), and I've been trying to figure out for years what it meant.
If you don't know, WBC are the "God Hates Fags!" protesters that show up everywhere with signs and chanted slogans.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
