Open Letter To Christians

[Esquilax]

Did you watch the video, Esq?

Yes. However, that's irrelevant to my objections to Snowy's conclusion: "Your reasons for disagreeing with me are different and less worthy than your stated ones," is not something he, or anyone, could possibly know.

As much as you seem to ignore it, I am right from time to time in this forum. This is one of those times.

Yeah, I know you think that. Of course you do; that's not surprising or controversial. I don't think anybody puts forth their positions on things while simultaneously thinking that they're wrong.

It is obvious that those events did NOT anger God enough to "return to earth". Does it follow that they did not anger God at all?

Which doesn't alter the objection: anger without action is impotent. Sitting there stewing through a cavalcade of human suffering, while having the power to help, is not any more noble than being coldly unaffected by it all.

And to the point, nope writes, "the fact that two men can legally marry is the tipping point that makes him want to destroy a large portion of humankind?"

Tipping point? Is nope highlighting that gay "marriage" (technically, it's civil union since marriage is a sacrament between a man and a woman, but whatever) is the point which "tips the balance of the scale"? If so, what else is on that scale to which gay marriage was added?

First of all, you're welcome to imbue whatever religious significance to marriage that you wish, but you don't get to claim ownership over a concept that both predates, and is not exclusive to, your religion. That historical revisionist schtick won't play here.

Secondly, you still seem to not understand the gist of the argument, which is that "two dudes can get married" should not be a catalyst to rousing god to do something, but "people are dying in the millions" is, and yet god sat by there. It's a question of priorities, not accumulation; frankly, god should have been moved to aid in the black plague, to pick one example, on its own, devoid of additional context. The point is that playing these sorts of moral accounting games with human lives is grotesque, as is the idea, that you seem to fully endorse, that god would ignore the big ticket game pieces regardless of the suffering involved until he gets enough of the paltry pieces (gay marriage and porn? Really? That's what's gonna do it, while the holocaust does not?) to make it worth his while.