(June 12, 2016 at 12:01 am)AFTT47 Wrote:(June 11, 2016 at 3:56 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Of course; but if the vase doesn't come out as the potter expects or hopes, s/he'd be an idiot to blame the vase.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Of all the absurdities of the Christian religion, this has got to be the most absurd of all and it should also be the most obvious.
Imagine a potter (who is supposedly a perfect potter who can do no wrong) angrily smashing all his creations because they didn't turn out right. But even the smashing isn't enough for him. He uses his magic to reassemble the defective pottery so he can smash them again. Even that's not enough to assuage him so he invents a place where the pottery is smashed and automatically reassembled and smashed again - for eternity. Very productive.
That's what Christians worship.
Ah, but that is not the whole story, my friend. You see, in his great love and mercy, the potter reaches down and allows the shattered vases to cut him. he tells them that if they believe his shed blood will cleanse them of the sin of having been created in the first place, and one day reassemble them and none of the previous shattering meant a shit. Forget it and just believe. The end will justify the means.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
