RE: Age of Deconversion
November 22, 2019 at 5:16 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2019 at 5:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
You're prevaricating, now, calling what you see as evil, and would not personally do, commands you would "kindly reject"..."justice" and "forgiveness". I'll afford you the courtesy and decency of your own humanity, even if you can't, or more accurately..refuse.
This brings us full circle, to your initial question. Though, in a better form. If seeing evil causes other people in your faith to fall out of faith, why doesn't it do the same to you?
Is believing that evil is good a strong indicator of a person remaining, or becoming..christian, in the same way that recognizing evil...as evil, is a strong indicator of a person being, or becoming, a non-christian?
As far as "saving mankind" - hows that working out? We're only discussing what bad thing may be pragmatic , a useful act of evil. Perhaps utility is the key to this difference in the way that people respond to seeing evil with respect to their beliefs? It's useful, to you, to cast your lot in with a god who is so horrendously powerful as to be able to flood the earth. It;s useful, to you...to cast your lot in with a god who commands that his followers skullfuck their neighbor and sell their daughters. No one wants to be the neighbor in that scenario...or worse, the daughter. It's useful, to you, for a god to kill some other person for the evil things you've done. An amoral transaction of illicit goods for personal gain.
What do you think?
This brings us full circle, to your initial question. Though, in a better form. If seeing evil causes other people in your faith to fall out of faith, why doesn't it do the same to you?
Is believing that evil is good a strong indicator of a person remaining, or becoming..christian, in the same way that recognizing evil...as evil, is a strong indicator of a person being, or becoming, a non-christian?
As far as "saving mankind" - hows that working out? We're only discussing what bad thing may be pragmatic , a useful act of evil. Perhaps utility is the key to this difference in the way that people respond to seeing evil with respect to their beliefs? It's useful, to you, to cast your lot in with a god who is so horrendously powerful as to be able to flood the earth. It;s useful, to you...to cast your lot in with a god who commands that his followers skullfuck their neighbor and sell their daughters. No one wants to be the neighbor in that scenario...or worse, the daughter. It's useful, to you, for a god to kill some other person for the evil things you've done. An amoral transaction of illicit goods for personal gain.
What do you think?
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