RE: Why are we here?
June 27, 2015 at 12:37 pm
(This post was last modified: June 27, 2015 at 12:38 pm by IATIA.)
(June 27, 2015 at 12:26 pm)KevinM1 Wrote: Why does a supreme being need glory? And at the threat of eternal punishment, no less?
Exactly, according to most theist philosophies, god created us for the sole purpose of groveling before it or suffer eternal damnation. That purpose in and of itself makes no sense and the theists are unable to come up with anything else. All their arguments boil down to this ridiculous premise.
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy