I agree that 'the church of Christ endures', but what of it? Even the devout suffer the ravages of famine, disease, natural disasters, hunger and a countless litany of other horrors. Where is the compassion of Christ for the infant with harlequin ichthyosis? For people slowly starving to death because the local warlord has interrupted the food shipment? For the village wiped out by a tsunami?
The power of churches is a fiction, kids. Grow up. If gods really, seriously cared for their followers, prayers would be answered at a significantly higher rate than chance (and don't post links to this or that study showing the efficacy of prayer. GIGO.). Why doesn't your loving god do something about the flood of Syrian refugees, or malarial epidemics, or crop failures, or any of the myriad of other things that are inimical to human happiness? Every discovery - without exception - that has made human beings happier, healthier or safer has been the result of the painstaking work of human men and women. No gods need apply.
What's that? There's a better life a-comin'? That's the trouble with you religionists - it's always jelly today and jelly tomorrow, but fuck-all for today.
Boru
The power of churches is a fiction, kids. Grow up. If gods really, seriously cared for their followers, prayers would be answered at a significantly higher rate than chance (and don't post links to this or that study showing the efficacy of prayer. GIGO.). Why doesn't your loving god do something about the flood of Syrian refugees, or malarial epidemics, or crop failures, or any of the myriad of other things that are inimical to human happiness? Every discovery - without exception - that has made human beings happier, healthier or safer has been the result of the painstaking work of human men and women. No gods need apply.
What's that? There's a better life a-comin'? That's the trouble with you religionists - it's always jelly today and jelly tomorrow, but fuck-all for today.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
