Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!
Current time: November 17, 2024, 5:28 pm
Thread Rating:
|
Why did god create diseases?
|
 
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe  
Because God hates us and wants us all to eat shit and die...
 (April 2, 2014 at 1:35 pm)tor Wrote: We don't deserve life? What do we deserve then? Surely you know how the bible views everyone. Even christians. we're worthless, except as far as Yahweh values us. Of course Yahweh only values us as much as we worship him. It wasn't like he designed us to become a great people on our own. The story of Eden and babel establishes that. We deserve to be destroyed, and the only way to not be destroyed or tortures is to ask Yahweh for forgiveness for something Adam and Eve did. Forgiveness for something that's out of our ability to influence. It's a wonderful little con game.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
I never understood the doctrine of blaming people for something somebody else did.
I bet it doesn't make sense even to frodo.  (April 2, 2014 at 2:16 pm)tor Wrote: I never understood the doctrine of blaming people for something somebody else did. He understands it better than anyone else. Imagine what he had to go through because his uncle found a ring!
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
Well when i do bad, I deserve punishment, but the idea that I was born bad because of something my ancestors did has never sat well with me. I'm not sure why anyone would consider it just to punish someone for something their grandfather did, or whatever. Sure Hitler was one of the most evil people in history, but if he had children I'm not going to hate them unless they personally do something awful. In my opinion you'd just have to have an odd view of justice for doing that, believing that innocent blood must be shed to pay for the guilty, or that eternal punishment is in any way proportional to a lifetime of crimes.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."
10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason... http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/ Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50 A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh. http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html
H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe (April 2, 2014 at 2:16 pm)tor Wrote: I never understood the doctrine of blaming people for something somebody else did. Why thanks lover  I like the story as a description of the human condition. We're a flawed species. I've never been hung up on the story thinking it's even remotely literal. |
|
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
Users browsing this thread: 3 Guest(s)
