(September 20, 2015 at 5:20 am)TheThinkingCatholic Wrote: Did I say I was smart? unlike an atheist.Many atheists are very intelligent. It is not intelligence, or a lack thereof, that leads a person to reject belief in God. It is a lack of righteousness that leads a person to reject belief in God. Many people do not object to the idea of a Creator, as long as that Creator minds His own business and leaves them alone. What people reject is the idea of a Creator who demands morality from His creation. Rather than struggle against a guilty conscience, some people reject the idea of God altogether. Psalm 14:1 calls this type of person a “fool.”
My conscience is clear, and you are still a douchebag, for all the reasons I have enumerated.
I reject the idea of God altogether because it is obvious to me that all the claims of Christianity are no different than the claims of the other religions, except in petty details, and that the God of the Bible is obviously a projection of human psychology.
I reject the "moral" demands of your God because I find them morally repugnant, starting with calling those who disagree with you "fools" and claiming this has any rhetorical weight. The Blood God of Canaan, as described by the Bronze Age tribal warrior culture that made him up, is beneath my sense of morality.
The fact that you could even begin to claim that I am less moral than a creature that (if I accept your Wholly Babble as descriptive of an actual, existing entity) "demands" genocide and blood sacrifice, while permitting slavery, misogyny, and murderous social conformity rules on a scale almost inconceivable to the modern mind... baffling to me. You people are baffling to me.
A Christian told me: if you were saved you cant lose your salvation. you're sealed with the Holy Ghost
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
