RE: Better reasons to quit Christianity
August 20, 2012 at 3:01 pm
(This post was last modified: August 20, 2012 at 3:05 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I don't UD. I cannot, because our knowledge of the particulars of both the cosmos and ourselves has changed so drastically from the time we coined the phrase and the concept as to render it completely and utterly useless. It appears, at this point, to be an artifact of ignorance.
However, whichever definition you choose, either 1 or 2, would be ruled out by a precognitive being (or, in the absence of a precognitive being, by predestination itself). No amount of wriggling on either term would alter that without abandoning the term in earnest, only clinging to the word so as to reconcile an ill-conceived myth with your own (though perhaps not entirely clear headed) much better understanding of the subject (relative to it's origins).
I want to make this perfectly clear to you. I am not indebted to whatever it is that you worship. Not in the least, not in one tiny particular. If you want to sign yourself up for such a debt (whether real or imagined) then so be it. I'm not interested. The thing you worship did not create me, nor did it create any one of my ancestors. It is completely absent in my life (as it was in theirs), and for that I am greatly relieved. I'm not personally looking to blame anyone's god for anything at all. That would be undeserved credit of the highest order. Now I've answered your question (and then some), will you be answering mine?
However, whichever definition you choose, either 1 or 2, would be ruled out by a precognitive being (or, in the absence of a precognitive being, by predestination itself). No amount of wriggling on either term would alter that without abandoning the term in earnest, only clinging to the word so as to reconcile an ill-conceived myth with your own (though perhaps not entirely clear headed) much better understanding of the subject (relative to it's origins).
I want to make this perfectly clear to you. I am not indebted to whatever it is that you worship. Not in the least, not in one tiny particular. If you want to sign yourself up for such a debt (whether real or imagined) then so be it. I'm not interested. The thing you worship did not create me, nor did it create any one of my ancestors. It is completely absent in my life (as it was in theirs), and for that I am greatly relieved. I'm not personally looking to blame anyone's god for anything at all. That would be undeserved credit of the highest order. Now I've answered your question (and then some), will you be answering mine?
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