(October 14, 2015 at 8:05 pm)Losty Wrote: You're seriously going to call me disengenuous as you chop off almost my entire quote?
(October 14, 2015 at 2:42 am)Losty Wrote: I personally don't care if I'm right. There are so many gods to choose from, not believing in any of them seems safer than believing in one over another.
Listen, I don't care if I'm right because if I am wrong I am the safest form of wrong I can find. Worshipping false god/s would just be adding an extra charge to my ticket.
Add to it that I don't have to worship and fairytale villains and I just really can't see a better option.
You know, I never thought of Pascal's Wager like that, before.
I'd much rather explain to an Almighty Deity, upon Judgement Day, why I found the evidence of no gods whatsoever convincing enough to believe in any of them, than to explain to AD why I found some other god more convincing than her. Or him.
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.
