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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 9, 2024 at 3:27 pm
(April 9, 2024 at 3:14 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: (April 9, 2024 at 3:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If God is so good, explain harlequin ichthyosis.
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Clearly, god has a sense of humor.
and god was drunk when he/she/it made the platypus!
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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 9, 2024 at 3:34 pm
(April 6, 2024 at 3:03 am)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Not so much a sacrifice as a minor inconvenience.
"I took a 36 hour nap to save you from your sins. The sins my father designed you to commit from many generations before you were born. No need to thank me all at once!"
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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 9, 2024 at 4:09 pm
(April 9, 2024 at 3:14 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: (April 9, 2024 at 3:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If God is so good, explain harlequin ichthyosis.
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Clearly, god has a sense of humor.
Wow.
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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 9, 2024 at 4:16 pm
(April 9, 2024 at 4:09 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (April 9, 2024 at 3:14 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: Clearly, god has a sense of humor.
Wow.
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It's impressive how well I know the guy, amiright?
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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 9, 2024 at 4:22 pm
(April 9, 2024 at 4:16 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: (April 9, 2024 at 4:09 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Wow.
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It's impressive how well I know the guy, amiright?
It’s impressive - disturbingly so - that you’d make a light of such a horrific birth defect.
I really hope I misunderstood you.
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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 9, 2024 at 4:24 pm
(April 9, 2024 at 4:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (April 9, 2024 at 4:16 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: It's impressive how well I know the guy, amiright?
It’s impressive - disturbingly so - that you’d make a light of such a horrific birth defect.
I really hope I misunderstood you.
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How could I possibly correct your subjective interpretation?
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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 9, 2024 at 4:35 pm
(April 9, 2024 at 4:24 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: (April 9, 2024 at 4:22 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: It’s impressive - disturbingly so - that you’d make a light of such a horrific birth defect.
I really hope I misunderstood you.
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How could I possibly correct your subjective interpretation?
You could, but it seems you’re not going to. Let’s just leave it there.
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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 10, 2024 at 2:00 am
(April 2, 2024 at 2:27 pm)God_is_Good Wrote: Jesus literally died for us. I am totally....not impressed. If you could "save" humanity, all currently living humans and all in the future, wouldnt you you sacrifice your life for them as well?
Oh and that "god loves" you crap is also totally not impressive, since i am going to be tortured if i dont love him back .....or just dont believe he exists. Thanks, but no-thanks.
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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 10, 2024 at 2:31 am
(April 9, 2024 at 3:14 pm)Foxaèr Wrote: (April 9, 2024 at 3:13 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If God is so good, explain harlequin ichthyosis.
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RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
April 10, 2024 at 7:18 am
(April 2, 2024 at 2:27 pm)God_is_Good Wrote: Jesus literally died for us.
If God loved me, he would have lived for me. He could have flown down from heaven and told us about all sorts of things that would have improved our lives instead of us figuring them out for many centuries.
For starters, he could have told us about germs and how to treat them. Then, if the Romans tried to kill him out of fear, he could prove to be indestructible so that they bowed to him and listened to his teachings as he uncovers more scientific revelations to better human lives and he sets out commandments of how not to misuse science for evil. Then, after a few centuries, when he made sure that people had learned his teachings, he flies back where he came from.
But no. Instead, we get a guy who was active for a year and who told people not to masturbate and mostly regurgitated sayings from the Old Testament and then died.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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