RE: Christians celebrate rape, torture, slavery and genocide.
November 13, 2012 at 4:13 pm
(This post was last modified: November 13, 2012 at 4:15 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Does it seem circular, what part? Can you elaborate on that?
While we're elaborating......You found it interesting that Darkstar argued that his opinions were correct and those that disagreed were wrong, considering that he would criticize god for doing so. For my own part I think a more damning indictment of the "opinions of god" isn't that god is said to have opinions or that gods opinions are supposedly the correct ones, but that god is incapable of elaborating upon them. "This opinion is incorrect - and here's why I think this is so-."
The opinions of Darkstar and the opinions of a god aren't even in the same category, god's opinions fall somewhere around the value of toast for conversational purposes because
A: no one actually knows what they are
B: Darkstar can be produced as an authority assuming responsibility for his opinions
and, importantly...
C: Darkstar is capable of elaborating and expanding upon those opinions, without this ability the imagination strains to conceive of a way that a conversation might ensue..let alone a debate of relative merit...or resolution between two differing opinions.
Maybe that's why gods opinions are so often followed by "agree with me or else"?
While we're elaborating......You found it interesting that Darkstar argued that his opinions were correct and those that disagreed were wrong, considering that he would criticize god for doing so. For my own part I think a more damning indictment of the "opinions of god" isn't that god is said to have opinions or that gods opinions are supposedly the correct ones, but that god is incapable of elaborating upon them. "This opinion is incorrect - and here's why I think this is so-."
The opinions of Darkstar and the opinions of a god aren't even in the same category, god's opinions fall somewhere around the value of toast for conversational purposes because
A: no one actually knows what they are
B: Darkstar can be produced as an authority assuming responsibility for his opinions
and, importantly...
C: Darkstar is capable of elaborating and expanding upon those opinions, without this ability the imagination strains to conceive of a way that a conversation might ensue..let alone a debate of relative merit...or resolution between two differing opinions.
Maybe that's why gods opinions are so often followed by "agree with me or else"?
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