RE: Is America the greatest country
December 13, 2015 at 2:51 pm
(This post was last modified: December 13, 2015 at 2:53 pm by Homeless Nutter.)
(December 13, 2015 at 2:27 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: [...]So when someone talks about wanting every gun owner to get killed by getting shot, I use the word "innocent" to describe them in the sense that they are not criminals deserving of a death sentence merely because they have a gun.
And yet they deserve a death sentence merely because they were born human. All you're saying is that only god gets to harm and kill people, or even wish for them to die. All we get to do is praise god when they do die and/or get otherwise punished.
(December 13, 2015 at 2:27 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: As for the story of Eve eating the apple, I've talked many times about how neither me nor the majority of Catholics see this story as a literal one. It's more a symbolism of human sin, free will, and the fact that none of us is perfect and will inevitably do things wrong sometimes.
You're still dancing around the issue. It doesn't matter, if it's a literal female eating a literal apple, or not - according to your god because of our POTENTIAL for "doing things wrong sometimes", we don't deserve to live forever, the way humans were - allegedly - originally intended to. In fact - many of us deserve to live in utter poverty, ignorance and indignity, just because - as C. Hitchens put it - we were created sick and commanded to be well.
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw
