RE: On non-belief and the existence of God
August 13, 2014 at 7:15 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2014 at 7:16 pm by Clueless Morgan.)
(August 13, 2014 at 5:41 pm)Michael Wrote: It's a nice ideal, but I tend to think we have a tendency of messing things up.
So... if you're a Christian you won't mess anything up?
If we're all human and we all have a tendency to mess up, then Christians, too, have this same tendency and it doesn't make a lick of difference if you're a good person trying to do good things and you don't follow Christianity or if you're a good person trying to do good things and you do.
Quote:But, also, why would a good person reject the personification of goodness?
I'm sorry, about whom are we speaking?
Princess Diana?
Angelina Jolie?
Bono?
Is "the personification of goodness" hyperbole, or am I to take this description literally?
Quote:Why wouldn't they embrace and welcome it?
How much other baggage comes with it? Do I have to believe that this "personification of goodness" was also, say, born of a virgin? Or is the son or daughter of a god? Or is a god itself?
Quote:If Christianity is true, then Christ would/should surely be welcomed by all who want goodness and love to prevail.
I'm sorry again, but when was it established that goodness and love can only prevail if Christianity prevails? Why couldn't goodness and love prevail if everyone accepts, say, secular humanist ideals?
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.