Not to mention, LFC, that if you go with the "God magically shaped molecules into DNA and proteins that make up life" hypothesis (I shudder to even call it that), you have to accept that this meddler-in-the-mud then deliberately created:
The Marburg/Ebola viruses:
Hantavirus:
(It mostly causes internal bleeding, so no pictures of the patients on this one.)
HIV/AIDS:
Need I go on? I could get into the parasitic creatures and fungal infections and bacteria/archaea, if we need to.
They think they're doing God a favor when they posit that he shaped all life's DNA by magic, but the problem is that if God used magic to deliberately shape life on earth, then he is a sick bastard. It's much kinder to God to say that evolution is the Creation process, as random and amoral as it is, and that God is not intervening in the natural world other than to save our souls after death...because if this is on purpose, then we need to catch and execute this deity for crimes against humanity. (And also the rest of the plant/animal kingdoms, all of which are similarly infected by parasitic creatures, including viruses.)
The Marburg/Ebola viruses:
Hantavirus:
(It mostly causes internal bleeding, so no pictures of the patients on this one.)
HIV/AIDS:
Need I go on? I could get into the parasitic creatures and fungal infections and bacteria/archaea, if we need to.
They think they're doing God a favor when they posit that he shaped all life's DNA by magic, but the problem is that if God used magic to deliberately shape life on earth, then he is a sick bastard. It's much kinder to God to say that evolution is the Creation process, as random and amoral as it is, and that God is not intervening in the natural world other than to save our souls after death...because if this is on purpose, then we need to catch and execute this deity for crimes against humanity. (And also the rest of the plant/animal kingdoms, all of which are similarly infected by parasitic creatures, including viruses.)
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.