RE: Does God know what hell feels like?
August 15, 2015 at 6:54 am
(This post was last modified: August 15, 2015 at 6:57 am by Psychonaut.)
(August 15, 2015 at 6:16 am)abaris Wrote: There's a deeper problem with the "does god...?" threads in these forums. One that I came to fully understand only yesterday, when I had a conversation here with one of our better theists. He obviously can't wrap his mind around the fact that when we say god, we do so in a metaphorical way, really talking about the people, who set him up, created him.
I tried to explain, but I think it's one of the reasons why they always say we're mad at god, we're critizising god's morality and so on, while all the way, we don't believe there is a god. Only peope who created a set of religious rules for their time and their region.
Right, but this is why I included the modifiers:
"I've often heard theists"
"According to the monogod religions"
"Or is that a consequence believers"
The question, on analysis is clearly framed as a hypothetical, and at most, a query directed at believers about their beliefs.
Edit:
If certain theists can't understand that, I'll put it down to the fact that they either:
A) have a poor grasp on the English
B) have a poor grasp on reality
C) both A and B
Plato had defined Man as an animal, biped and featherless, and was applauded. Diogenes plucked a fowl and brought it into the lecture room with the words,
"Behold Plato's man!"