RE: The stupidity of sin
October 3, 2016 at 11:28 pm
(This post was last modified: October 3, 2016 at 11:29 pm by robvalue.)
Are we done here? I guess belief isn't a choice after all.
Not without defining "choice" in a really stupid way, anyway. It's not a free choice that can be made anytime. I can't choose to believe magical Jesus walked the earth. No more than Huggy can choose to disbelieve it. It would take some pretty strong evidence at this point. Evidence which is extremely unlikely to surface in my lifetime, if ever. I shall be punished for this? Fuck off God. Even if I believed, I'd tell Jesus to fuck off. I guess that's not a sin, if sin is just disbelief.
Seriously. Imagine how dangerous it would be! I could decide to truly believe cars don't hurt me. Since many choices are subconscious (perhaps even all), maybe I'd make the choice without realising it and wander into the road thinking I'm immune. There's a good evolutionary reason I'm sure we don't abandon beliefs, or form them, based on a whim and nothing more.
Not without defining "choice" in a really stupid way, anyway. It's not a free choice that can be made anytime. I can't choose to believe magical Jesus walked the earth. No more than Huggy can choose to disbelieve it. It would take some pretty strong evidence at this point. Evidence which is extremely unlikely to surface in my lifetime, if ever. I shall be punished for this? Fuck off God. Even if I believed, I'd tell Jesus to fuck off. I guess that's not a sin, if sin is just disbelief.
Seriously. Imagine how dangerous it would be! I could decide to truly believe cars don't hurt me. Since many choices are subconscious (perhaps even all), maybe I'd make the choice without realising it and wander into the road thinking I'm immune. There's a good evolutionary reason I'm sure we don't abandon beliefs, or form them, based on a whim and nothing more.
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