(June 12, 2016 at 7:57 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: I've before made the comparison between the relationship with God and an abusive household. The abuser in the scenario is a cold and indifferent world, the victim is a fragile and ignorant primate species who's flawed brains project agency where there is none.
The world strikes the primates with unrelenting hardship: plagues, disasters, pain, death, for centuries without warning or explanation, and the primates reacts as many victims of abuse do, they come to excuse and even defend the actions of the abuser, convince themselves that the abuser knows best and that they must have deserved the punishment they got, and if they just did as they were supposed to, then they wouldn't be hurt. Problem is, this abuser is an unthinking cosmos that the primitive apes have mistaken for an angry parent.
Oh but I can't blame god. God loves me. Of course, if I had the power to follow his example of love, he'd be hurt. There must be some hidden sin in me that's blocking my faith. I'll just pray and ask him to reveal what I'm doing wrong.
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.
