(August 27, 2015 at 9:21 am)Drich Wrote: So you believe evil does not exist?
Or have you not ever given it any thought beyond your cliche'?
Yes, I apologise for not crossing i's and dotting t's.
I was referring to the idea that humanity is somehow 'doomed' to all sorts of post-life awfulness and that individuals can be 'saved' from such awfulness by subscribing to whichever belief set about their 'Saviour' is held by the particular Christian one is talking to at the time.
Genius use of fear.
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
All things to us, but in the course of time
Through seeking we may learn and know things better.
These things are, we conjecture, like the truth.
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor shall he know it, neither of the gods
Nor yet of all the things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The final truth, he would himself not know it:
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes
