(October 13, 2015 at 9:20 pm)Beccs Wrote: An atheist interpreting a bible verse:
"Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys.'
1. Either primitive desert barbarians justifying genocide, rape, and enslavement by claiming it was a deity who told them to do it, or:
2. A thoroughly evil deity ordering its followers to commit genocide. A deity NOT worth worshipping.
But there is a third choice.
3. It could be part of god's plan to kill those people who might have grown up to be Hitlers.
Oh but I'm plagiarizing Pat Robertson. Forgive me. I don't know what came over me. Led by the spirit, I guess.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
